Walter Brennan (Jim Harper) and Sherman Sanders (Square Dance Caller) originated their roles in Jean Renoir's Swamp Water (1941)
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a sixty-minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 25, 1953, with Jean Peters and Jeffrey Hunter reprising their film roles.
Remake of 1941's "Swamp Water" (also by 20th Century Fox) and filmed in the same Georgia swamp location.