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Wild River
The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!
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.
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Cast
- Montgomery Clift as Chuck Glover
- Lee Remick as Carol Garth Baldwin
- Jo Van Fleet as Ella Garth
- Albert Salmi as Hank Bailey
- Jay C. Flippen as Hamilton Garth
- James Westerfield as Cal Garth
- Bruce Dern as Jack Roper
- Barbara Loden as Betty Jackson
- Frank Overton as Walter Clark
- Malcolm Atterbury as Sy Moore
- Robert Earl Jones as Sam Johnson (uncredited)
Details
- Director
- Elia Kazan
- Released
- May 26, 1960
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.2 / 10 from 108 votes
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