---
title: 'Swamp Water (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jean Renoir'
released: '1941-10-23'
runtime_minutes: 88
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/swamp-water-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034251/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Swamp Water (1941)

1941 · 88 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Swamp Water is a 1941 American Southern Gothic film noir directed by Jean Renoir and starring Walter Brennan, Walter Huston and Anne Baxter. Based on the novel by Vereen Bell, it was produced at 20th Century Fox. The film was shot on location at Okefenokee Swamp, Waycross, Georgia, USA. It was Renoir's first American film. The film was remade in 1952 as Lure of the Wilderness, directed by Jean Negulesco.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jean Renoir](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-renoir), [Irving Pichel](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-pichel)
- **Producer:** [Irving Pichel](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-pichel)
- **Screenplay:** [Dudley Nichols](https://cinepixo.com/people/dudley-nichols), [Vereen Bell](https://cinepixo.com/people/vereen-bell)
- **Original Music Composer:** [David Buttolph](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-buttolph)
- **Director of Photography:** [Lucien Ballard](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucien-ballard), [John Peverell Marley](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-peverell-marley)
- **Editor:** [Walter A. Thompson](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-a-thompson)

## Cast

- [John Carradine](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-carradine)
- [Walter Brennan](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-brennan)
- [Guinn "Big Boy" Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/guinn-big-boy-williams)
- [Mae Marsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/mae-marsh)
- [Virginia Gilmore](https://cinepixo.com/people/virginia-gilmore)
- [Eugene Pallette](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugene-pallette)
- [Mary Howard de Liagre](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-howard-de-liagre)
- [Joe Sawyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-sawyer)
- [Dana Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/dana-andrews)
- [Walter Huston](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-huston)
- [Russell Simpson](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-simpson)
- [Anne Baxter](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-baxter)
- [Ward Bond](https://cinepixo.com/people/ward-bond)

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