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Tuesday. April 20. 1982
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Jean Renoir : on the set in California
4 Swamp Water’ still fresh
A review of “Swamp Water,” directed by
Jean Renoir. A presentation of the Georgia
Review Enrichment Fund.
By STEVE RICHMOND
Red and Black Uontribuling Writer
It’s a shame it could only run for one day,
but the Georgia Review Enrichment Fund's
presentation Friday of Jean Renoir's 1941
film about rural life in and around the
Okefenokee swamp, “Swamp Water," gave
several viewers quite an enjoyable dose of
Georgia's history.
The film, based on the first novel of
Georgia author Vereen Bell, was introduced
at Friday's showing by his son Vereen Jr., an
English professor at Vanderbilt University,
with a comparison / contrast of the film and
his father’s book.
In 1940, the young writer sold his first novel
to be published in serial form to the popular
literary magazine, The Saturday Evening
Post. Before the first installment had ap
peared, Twentieth Century-Fox had purchas
ed the movie rights.
At this time, Renoir, son of the famous
French painter, signed a contract to work
with Twentieth Century-Fox. Renoir left
behind a European audience, which he felt
had become disillusioned with his work, to
come to Hollywood and make his first
American film. Several scripts were sent to
Renoir as possible subjects for the film, but
nothing he read appealed to him until he was
shown the screen adaptation of “Swamp
Water."
After a trip to Waycross to see the swamp
and meet the people of the area, Renoir
decided that this was the movie he would
make. He was immediately impressed with
the charm, wittiness and generosity of the
South Georgians, and he wanted to shoot the
entire film on location in the Okefenokee.
Darryl Zanuck.he producer who was to work
with Renoir on the film, argued that the
general public "knew nothing about Georgia
except that it is a land of swamp."
Finally, Renoir was allowed to shoot a
small amount of film in the swamp, but this
served mainly as background in the movie.
The vast majority of the filming was done in
a studio.
The film is in essence a story of the initia
tion of its protagonist into manhood. The
film-making techniques are somewhat
dated, but fine acting by several stars of the
period make it a movie well worth seeing
The adventure begins as Ben Ragan,
played by Dana Andrews, loses his dog.
Trouble, in the swamp.
Tom Keefer (Walter Brennan) decides to
look for Trouble, and finds it. Through a
series of misadventures, he meets an
aimless drifter in the swamp who is
suspected of murder, becomes suspect
himself, becomes the enemy of the real
murderers, leads them to their deaths in a
bed of quicksand and is the best man at Ben’s
wedding.
There are several other stereotypical
Southern characters, complete with affected
accents and manners, who do little else than
sit around and pass the time of the day at the
town’s general store. Anyone who has been to
or lived in a small southern town will find
this movie both interesting and humorous to
watch.
The film opened in Waycross in 1941 with
great pomp and circumstance, not to men
tion several sold-out shows in a row. This
popularity spread throughout the country,
and “Swamp Water” became one of the big
gest grossing movies of 1941. The response to
the Georgia Review’s two free shows il
lustrates why.
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