Warner Bros.
Directed by Nicholas Ray
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Location shooting helps this documentary-like study of a Florida game warden fighting poachers in the Everglades. Christopher Plummer is the awestruck high school teacher turned warden, whose appreciation of the wildlife is almost poetic. Burl Ives is "Cottonmouth", leader of a gang of poachers who live in shacks in the swamp. They follow his every command and he hovers over them like a swamp king. Plummer and Ives eventually duel, in a protracted game of chicken involving hard liquor during which their life philosophies are bared. Unusual to say the least, but dramatically uneven.
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