Dark Waters (1944 film)
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Director Andre de Toth Music director Miklos Rozsa Duration Language English | 6.5/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery Producer Benedict Bogeaus Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 21, 1944 (1944-11-21) (United States) Based on The Saturday Evening Post serial Dark Waters
by Francis M. Cockrell
Marian B. Cockrell Writer Francis M. Cockrell (original story), Marian B. Cockrell (original story), Joan Harrison (screenplay), Marian B. Cockrell (screenplay), Arthur T. Horman (additional dialogue) Cast Merle Oberon (Leslie Calvin), Franchot Tone (Dr. George Grover), Thomas Mitchell (Mr. Sydney), Fay Bainter (Aunt Emily), Elisha Cook Jr. (Cleeve), John Qualen (Uncle Norbert)Similar movies Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs , The Boy Next Door , Black Swan , The Third Man , Hell Drivers , Once Upon a Time in the West Tagline Was love or madness to be her fate? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dark waters 1944 quicksand scene
Dark Waters is a 1944 Gothic film noir based on the novel of the same name by Francis and Marian Cockrell. It was directed by Andre DeToth and starred Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone and Thomas Mitchell.
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Plot
A shaken survivor of a ship sunk by a submarine travels to her aunt and uncle's Louisiana plantation to recuperate, but her relatives have other ideas.
Cast
Critical response
Slant Magazine's film critic, Glenn Heath Jr., liked the film writing, "Mood dictates narrative in Andre de Toth's Dark Waters, a hallucinatory jigsaw puzzle set in the deep swamps of 1940s Louisiana that becomes a perfect breeding ground for noirish shadows and deceptive wordplay ... Dark Waters ends with multiple dead bodies sinking into the bayou and Leslie directly confronting what one character calls her "persuasion complex." The bravura finale through the oozing locale is a stunner, and despite some surface romance that feels a bit forced, the film stays true to its mystically dark mood, a slithering distant cousin to Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie.
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