Movielogr
Wild River (1960)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Most recently watched by sleestakk
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.
Length 110 minutes
Actors
Montgomery Clift | Lee Remick | Jo Van Fleet | Albert Salmi | Jay C. Flippen | James Westerfield | Bruce Dern | Barbara Loden | Frank Overton | Malcolm Atterbury | Robert Earl Jones