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If you've ever heard stories of backswamp gator baiting, here's your chance to see it in action. This is the story of two young boys, used as bait to catch gators, who grow up competing with each other over who is the best at what they do. But one of the fathers wants his son to go on to better things and so sends him off to school. When he comes back to the swamp an educated man, the old rivalry ensues. I imagine this movies main selling point back in 1947 was the gator baiting scene and the young girl cutting her overalls to shreds to form an early variation on the bikini. Its a short film, one like they use to show before the main feature instead of irritating commercials like they do now, so you won't feel like you wasted too much of you time.

At least the swamp setting looks realistic, but the movie is really boring, the tale of a rivalry of two men in a swamp land who grew up together as friends catching alligators over who is the best. One of them even has the nickname of Gator. Overdramatic and silly, the film is terribly paced and filled with a ton of dull spots, only livened up by some stock footage of an actual swamp land with the various dangerous creatures that populate the area. There's lots of fights where someone falls into the gator and snake infested waters and their desperate attempts to get out. But there are long periods without any dialogue, just the overly dramatic music. However, perhaps that's a good thing. The actors are forced to speak with the worst accents, so ridiculous and cringe-worthy that the film becomes headache inducing. Another film from PRC where the studio's name really seems to stand for perfectly rotten cinema. At least the actors wrestle with the rubber alligators pretty realistically. It's more painful for the viewer than anybody who actually gets attacked by the vicious reptilesol or sucked into the swamp's quicksand. Told through Flashback by an old timer who opens and ends the film with the most painful rendition of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen".