Savannah (2013)

Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society his longtime friend a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie at his side Master of Shakespeare and the shotgun that provides Savannahs markets with fowl Ward fights for his rights as a hunter His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation