Bayou is a 1957 American drama film directed by Harold Daniels and starring Peter Graves, Lita Milan and Douglas Fowley.

Produced by American National Films, it was also shot in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, and most of the characters are Cajun residents of a rural fishing village.

Martin Davis, a young Yankee architect, comes to New Orleans from the North to compete against a local man for the job of designing a new civic auditorium.

In order to impress the local building commissioner, Martin's contractor friend, Jim Tallant, enters him in a race using pirogues, primitive canoes hollowed out of tree trunks.

At Herbert's funeral, Ulysses makes a final effort to win Marie and taunts Martin into a brutal fight.