The film opens with an elderly black man meeting a reporter on a small pier on the Okefenokee Swamp and he relates a tale which starts our movie.
Two young boys grow up together and are used as gator bait by their fathers. One comes back to the swamps after he has gone off to college. That young man is Jeff Owens (Steve Pendleton).
Jeff wants to help the swamp people make better lives for themselves with what he has learned in college. Most of the people living there are resentful and want him to leave.
"Gator Bait" Blair (Mikel Conrad), Jeff's childhood friend now hates him for leaving the swamps for the outside world and tries the hardest to stop him. He even goes so far as to try and kill him.
Jeff is determined however and does not stop. This movie struck me as a really off the wall presentation, but none the less fun and, believe it or not, fast moving.
This is also the first credited role for actor E.G. Marshall. He;s much younger, but he still looks like he did in later films. This is an oddity that you really should see.
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