Wild River

The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!

APPROPIATE

1960 / 110min.

Rating7.326

Genres

Drama

Romance

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Elia Kazan

Actors

Bruce Dern

Montgomery Clift

Lee Remick

Jo Van Fleet

Jay C. Flippen

Albert Salmi

Frank Overton

James Westerfield

Robert Earl Jones

Malcolm Atterbury

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