The names of the water vessels which glide across the swamps are known as airboats or fanboats. The place where the chase sequence took place in the film was set in the Louisiana Bayou, but filmed at Caddo Lake in Texas.
The musical group in the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) was known as "The Soggy Bottom Boys".
This movie was set in the fictional setting of Soggy Bottom, Louisiana in the American south.
This motion picture's opening title card read: "Louisiana, 1931".