Pioneering documentarian Robert J. Flaherty's last feature film, LOUISIANA STORY is a portrait of a bayou boy and his relationship to his habitat and the oil derrick that has sprung up within it.
A Cajun boy (Joseph Boudreaux) is poling his small boat through the marshes of the Petite Anse bayou when he is surprised by loud sounds of excavation. He returns to his cabin, where his father (Lionel LeBlanc), a trapper, is signing a contract authorizing an oil company to drill on his property.
After the oil derrick arrives, the boy becomes friendly with the men who work it.
One day, the boy happens upon a nest of alligator eggs, and his curiosity almost costs him...
Released:
1948
Rated:
NR
Length:
79 mins