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What is Wild River about?

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.

Genres: Drama, Romance
Released: 1960-05-26
Director: Elia Kazan
Rating: ★ 7.3 / 10

Top cast

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

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