p This is commonly known as Jean Renoir 三九 s first American film 一九四一 , although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir 三九 s creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F Zanuck and that he didn 三九 t regard much of the film as his own The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures Part of it was shot in Georgia 三九 s Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living Censored is often pungent and distinctive p