Wild River (1960)
1h 50m
Running Time
May 26, 1960Release Date
Wild River (1960)
1h 50m
Running Time
May 26, 1960Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
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)
Elia Kazan
Director
Paul Osborn
Writer
William Bradford Huie
Writer
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
Borden Deal
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Wild River is a 1960 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet. It was filmed in the Tennessee Valley, and was adapted by Paul Osborn from two novels: Borden Deal's Dunbar's Cove and William Bradford Huie's Mud on the Stars, drawing for plot from Deal's story of a battle of wills between the nascent Tennessee Valley Authority and generations-old land owners, and from Huie's study of a rural Southern matriarchal family for characters and their reaction to destruction of their land, and the controversial employment of African-American laborers by the TVA. It marked Bruce Dern's film debut. The film was selected for National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2002.
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