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Wild River

1960 · 1h 50m · Drama, Romance · United States of America · Rated PG (GB)

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.

Directed by
Elia Kazan
Written by
Paul Osborn
Based on the novel by
William Bradford Huie, Borden Deal
Starring
Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi
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1930sbased on novel or bookdamfloodingland disputerivertennessee
RatingPG (GB)

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