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Title: So-so chiller tries but no cigar
Review: An unjustly hanged ferryman (played by Charles Middleton of Ming the Merciless fame) lurks around as a ghostly presence in the swamp where he was executed and takes revenge on those responsible. However he doesn't appear much since, for the middle half of the film, he is absent apart from two spliced in close-ups. Almost atmospheric chiller set in the Louisiana swamp on a painfully small budget (the ferry goes about 20 yards and almost all of the action is confined to one set) with a lot of religious symbolism. Most of the footage is taken up with Blake Edwards (future Pink Panther film director) romancing Rosemary La Planche who somehow loves the horrible swamp and has taken to running the ferry. This has a cult reputation but is really not all that good since the horror element is missing from too much of the film and the climax has La Planche running everywhere only for Middleton to pop up at all corners (yet he still can't find Edwards).
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