Bayou
4.9
“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!”
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.
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Peter Graves
Martin Davis
Known for
Airplane!
Mission: Impossible
Timothy Carey
Ulysses
Known for
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Paths of Glory
Lita Milan
Marie Hebert
Known for
The Left Handed Gun
The Violent Men
Douglas Fowley
Emil Hebert
Known for
Singin' in the Rain
From Noon Till Three
Jonathan Haze
Bos
Known for
The Little Shop of Horrors
The Terror
Ed Nelson
Etienne (as Edwin Nelson)
Known for
Who Am I?
The Boneyard
Eugene Sonfield
Jean Tithe
Evelyn Hendrickson
Doucette
Also in
Mandingo
Milton Schneider
Cousine
No other roles listed
Michael Romano
Felician
Harold Daniels Director · Edward I. Fessler Screenplay Gerald Fried Composer
Worldwide gross $10M · United States release June 1, 1957 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$10,000,000
Production
American National Films
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · June 1, 1957
Theatrical
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