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Saturday, January 18, 2020

Swamp Fire (1946)

After serving in WWIIa man (Johnny Weissmuller) returns home to the bayous of Louisiana. His attempts to fall back into his former life are complicated by a wealthy heiress (Virginia Grey) who has designs on him and his  hot tempered rival (Buster Crabbe doing a dreadful Cajun accent) who resents his return. Directed by William H. Pinethis poverty row potboiler is of interest in seeing Tarzan (Weissmuller) and Flash Gordon (Crabbe) battle each other. Weissmuller may not be playing Tarzan but he's still wrestling rubber alligators! As usual in films of this sortthe "bad" girl (Grey) is much more fun than the "good" girl (Carol Thurston) though it's inevitable that Weismuller will choose the boring nice girl. Watchable but forgettable. With Pedro De Cordoba and Pierre Watkin. 

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