Film · Drama, Romance
Wild River (1960)
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.
- Director
- Elia Kazan
- Writers
- Paul Osborn, Borden Deal, William Bradford Huie
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- May 26, 1960
Cast
Montgomery CliftChuck Glover
Lee RemickCarol Garth Baldwin
Jo Van FleetElla Garth
Albert SalmiHank Bailey
Jay C. FlippenHamilton Garth
James WesterfieldCal Garth
Bruce DernJack Roper
Barbara LodenBetty Jackson
Frank OvertonWalter Clark
Malcolm AtterburySy Moore
Robert Earl JonesSam Johnson (uncredited)
