Review by denscul

Must make personal prejudice. I was a big city boy sent to the swamp that I couold see outside my BOQ. I trained at Moody AFB, where allgators and snakes from swamp came onto the runway in 1965-66. Never heard of film until I visited a park inside the swamp that had the raft, alledgedly used by Dana Andrews in film. Recently saw film via app, and have ordered DVD. I had to learn to understand the dialect used by nearby locals. I was a bird hunter, and visited the local who trained them. I bought a pedegree hunter because of my experience years later. Looked just like Andrews dog.

The film itself has a lot of stars, and supporting fixtures when film was made. The film captures the danger of getting lost, the nasty animals, and a world where it seemed to be about dogs and hunting. No TV in 1965 when I was there, certainly not in 1941, The story could be set anywhere. Lead male has girl who turns out nasty, finds another (Ann Baxter) whose dad has been falsely accused, and hiding in swamp. Not many films end with one of the false accusers being killed by quick sand. Walter Huston, a big star at the time plays Andrews Dad who is married to a much younger, attractive woman, who becomes suspect because her former guitar playing suitor still wants her. A good subplot that could be anywhere any time, anywhere in any mystery story. I love happy endings, and legal justice served. This old black and white is a classic, not many have seen or heard. Try it.