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Dark Waters (1944 film)

Dark Waters
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Andre DeToth
Produced by Benedict Bogeaus
Screenplay by Marian B. Cockrell
Joan Harrison
Arthur Horman
Based on The Saturday Evening Post serial Dark Waters
by Francis M. Cockrell
Marian B. Cockrell
Starring Merle Oberon
Franchot Tone
Thomas Mitchell
Fay Bainter
Elisha Cook, Jr.
Music by Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography John J. Mescall
Archie Stout
Edited by James Smith
Production
company
Benedict Bogeaus Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • November 21, 1944 (1944-11-21) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $800,000

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.

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.

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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