This is commonly known as Jean Renoirs first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoirs creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didnt regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures. Part of it was shot in Georgias Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.
