This is commonly known as Jean Renoir__APOS__s first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir__APOS__s creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn__APOS__t 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 Georgia__APOS__s Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.