Swamp Fire

It's Cajun country about the bar pilots, the fellows who get the ships from the Gulf of Mexico through the maze of the Mississippi delta. Here's Johnny Weissmuller, returned from the war with some form of PTSD that has him afraid to pilot a ship, until Pierre Watkin's yacht is stuck in the mud. He gets it through just fine, abusing Watkin's daughter, Virginia Gray. So naturally she wants him, as does Cajun girl Carol Thurston, whom Cajun Buster Crabbe also lusts for.

It's another of the Pine-Thomas B movies for Paramount, which made use of sturdy plots and stars fallen on hard times and available on the cheap. Here the star is Weissmuller. He was still doing the Tarzan series, but for Sol Lesser at RKO. This was, presumably, his chance to show he could act, but while Bill Pine gets a decent performance out of him until he recovers his mojo, after that he becomes rather blah. He does get to wrestle an alligator, and to rescue Miss Thurston from the titular fire, but if that's enough to keep you interested for 69 minutes, you're a more patient man than I am. With Pedro de Cordoba, Edwin Maxwell, and Joseph Crehan.