Bayou

I think your time would be better spent someplace else. This film isn't going to be the worst thing you've ever seen but even as a trash film its just got nothing going for it.

Lita Milan is somewhat charming but you can see that charm in much better films.

Classic cult drama. A young Peter Graves post-Stalag 17 pre-Mission:Impossible made a good naive hero. This film absolutely reeks of 1950's country living. (Or should that be livin')

It's your basic city boy comes to the boonies and wins over Miss young and pretty despite the reluctant father and jealous bloodthirsty boyfriend story.

Timothy Carey as Ulysses (said boyfriend) did an excellent job. Extremely polite to the older folks while giving Graves the laser beam eyes. He had a habit of playing intensity like it was pure gold. If you can find it...find it.

"Bayou" is a not particularly distinguished film that is, at times, slow-paced and is filled with questionable acting. Nevertheless, it became a notorious film a few years later when someone bought the movie rights and spliced in a few nude scenes...and made $10,000,000 in theaters! My review is for the original, non-nudie film. It's too bad...as the original picture is pretty slow.

Martin Davis (Peter Graves) has come to the Cajun country in Louisiana in search of a big project, as he's a young and enterprising architect. However, when he meets young Marie (Lita Milan), he forgets about the project and focuses all his attention on her. However, the Disney movie "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Quiet Man", there's a boorish jerk- face, Ulysses (Timothy Carey) who insists Marie is his...and he'll kick the butt of any man who tries to take her. While this all sounds interesting, most of the stuff in between is amazingly dull...and the film is filled with actors who seemed like amateurs...that is beside Graves and Carey. Overall, it's a very silly and only occasionally interesting movie.

Regardless of the quality of the film...I'm surprised no one has commented on Douglas Fowleys double duty in the film!

Just to show you how good IMDb really is, they have covered even this movie? It has been 42 years since I saw this much hyped, black and white joke. A group of us went to a drive-in thinking that we were going to see some nudity. After suffering through a movie that was shot almost entirely in the dark and in a swamp, nothing happened. What a loser! Has been the standard for 42 years for a bad movie.