FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

Twilight Time's SWAMP WATER is one of several Dana Andrews movies given their limited edition Blu Ray treatment, and now prices over seventy bucks: Directed by French import Jean Renoir (escaped from Nazi occupied France) sans a few studio inserts, it's pretty entertaining, taking place in a rural town nearby a dangerous southern swamp, where nothing survives but escaped convict Walter Brennan, taking in Dana... the stubborn but kindhearted son of equally stubborn Walter Huston... who eventually realizes his future FALLEN ANGEL cohort John Carradine holds all the cards.

Dana Andrews angrily stands up to the swamp-surrounded small town bullies in Jean Renoir's first American-directed feature, SWAMP WATER, with Eugene Pallette as a crooked sheriff backing Dana's CANYON PASSAGE enemy Ward Bond.

Not a movie more aesthetically prickly and scratchy and woody and reedy than SWAMP WATER directed by Jean Renoir, his first American film, and with Dana Andrews fourth billed, he's the true lead as Tom Regan, who finds a friendly, falsely-accused renegade while searching for his dog, Trouble, who lives up to his name.

Dana Andrews in an early role, and the buried lead in Jean Renoir's swampy adventure melodrama SWAMP WATER here with fickle, antagonistic ingenue Virginia Gilmore.