Wild River

May 26, 1960

1h 50m

★ 7.3

The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!

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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Wild River Trailers

Cast

Chuck Glover

Montgomery Clift

Carol Garth Baldwin

Lee Remick

Ella Garth

Jo Van Fleet

Hank Bailey

Albert Salmi

Hamilton Garth

Jay C. Flippen

Cal Garth

James Westerfield

Jack Roper

Bruce Dern

Betty Jackson

Barbara Loden

Walter Clark

Frank Overton

Sy Moore

Malcolm Atterbury

Sam Johnson (uncredited)

Robert Earl Jones

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