this film be the reason ms. davis do not play scarlett and a it would have be a rerun . she have it down pat in her performance in this movie . while she have so many great performance in her career very few top this one . henry fonda be young in this film but very effective play opposite a the male lead . the film accidentally have a valuable historic lesson today environmentalist chooses to ignore . a fair piece of the plot center around the fact that a plague ( fever ) type of illness be run through the south and kill a lot of people . fondas character be show be bite by a mosquito at one point in the movie . he then become ill with the plague and dy . after he be bitten and fonda character say maybe with all these people get sick and die and the yankee up north have a good idea about drain all their swamp . today environmentalist be try to save wetland but in order to do that they be ignore the health risk to people live near them ( today west nile virus ) . this prove there have to be a balance between preserve wetland where there be not people live but make sure they do not exist too close to civilization either . go to extremes by preserve wetland in populated area be dangerous . this movie be very well make for 1938 and and ms. davis have one of her strong early performance in her career .