Wild River (1960)
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.
Drama, Romance
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
- Bruce Dern — Jack Roper
- Barbara Loden — Betty Jackson
- Frank Overton — Walter Clark
- Malcolm Atterbury — Sy Moore
- Robert Earl Jones — Sam Johnson (uncredited)
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