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Wild River (1960)

Wild River (1960)

Drama Romance

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

Release Date: 1960, May 26
Directors: Elia Kazan
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Bruce Dern, Robert Earl Jones, Lee Remick, Malcolm Atterbury, Frank Overton, Jay C. Flippen, Albert Salmi, Jo Van Fleet, Montgomery Clift, James Westerfield, Barbara Loden

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book 1930s tennessee river dam flooding land dispute