Wild River

Wild River

★ 7.2IMDb Score
Released:1960-05-26
Duration:110 min
Director:Elia Kazan
Actors:Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C. Flippen
Production:20th Century Fox

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.

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