Wild River

Wild River

1960 · 1 hr 50 min · Approved

Drama, History, Romance

Directors

Elia Kazan

Actors

  • Montgomery Clift
  • Lee Remick
  • Jo Van Fleet

Credits: 6

Summary

A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.

More about this movie

A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. 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 an elderly woman 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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