Dark Waters (1944 film)

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 Andr De Toth and starred Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone and Thomas Mitchell.

Slant Magazines film critic, Glenn Heath Jr., liked the film writing, Mood dictates narrative in Andre de Toths 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 Tourneurs I Walked with a Zombie.

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