Bayou (1957)
Somewhere, a 15-year old girl may be a teenager... in the Cajun country, she's a woman full-grown! ...and every Bayou man knows it!
83 min
In 1957, director Harold Daniels was hired by producer Michael A. Ripps to oversee BAYOU, a cheaply made, overly melodramatic tale of swamp life. The low budget film starred a pre-MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Peter Graves, Corman regular Jonathan Haze, and the effortlessly bizarre Timothy Carey. But despite this eclectic cast, BAYOU was a major flop at the box office. So Ripps recut the film, adding an off-camera rape scene and a new, bloody conclusion to its climatic fight. Of even greater importance was Ripp's new title: POOR WHITE TRASH.
- Release date
- May 30, 1957
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Peter Graves as Martin Davis
- Lita Milan as Marie Hebert
- Douglas Fowley as Emil Hebert
- Jonathan Haze as Bos
- Ed Nelson as Etienne
- Eugene Sonfield as Jean Tithe
- Evelyn Hendrickson as Doucette
- Milton Schneider as Cousine
- Michael Romano as Felician
- Timothy Carey as Ulysses
Crew
- Harold Daniels · Director
- Edward I. Fessler · Writer
- M.A. Ripps · Producer
- Gerald Fried · Composer
- Ted Saizis · Cinematographer
- Vincent Saizis · Cinematographer
- Maurice Wright · Editor