Wind Across the Everglades

In the early part of the 20th century a game warden (Christopher Plummer) arrives in Florida in the hope of enforcing conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers. The film was loosely based upon the life and death of Guy Bradley, an early game warden who in 1905 was shot and killed by plume hunters in the Everglades and remains one of the least well known of director Ray’s remarkable ouevre.