Wild River (1960)
The wild language…the wild hungers…the wild furies!
Starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
Directed by Elia Kazan
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
Runtime: 110 min.
Rating: 7.4
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Languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Drama,Romance
Keywords: based on novel or book,river,flooding,tennessee,dam,1930s,land dispute
Cast
Chuck Glover
Carol Garth Baldwin
Ella Garth
Hank Bailey
Hamilton Garth
Cal Garth
Jack Roper
Betty Jackson
Walter Clark
Sy Moore