Wild River
“The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!”
1960•1h 50m•7.2•Released
DramaRomance
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. 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 a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Director
Elia Kazan
Writer
Paul Osborn
Languages
English
Studio
20th Century Fox
Cast
Montgomery Clift
Chuck Glover
Lee Remick
Carol Garth Baldwin
Jo Van Fleet
Ella Garth
Albert Salmi
Hank Bailey
Jay C. Flippen
Hamilton Garth
James Westerfield
Cal Garth
Bruce Dern
Jack Roper
Barbara Loden
Betty Jackson
Frank Overton
Walter Clark
Malcolm Atterbury
Sy Moore
Robert Earl Jones
Sam Johnson (uncredited)
Production
Company
20th Century Fox
Producer
Elia Kazan
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