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Wild River

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

7.3

1960•1h 50m

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.

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Photo of Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift

Chuck Glover

Photo of Lee Remick

Lee Remick

Carol Garth Baldwin

Photo of Jo Van Fleet

Jo Van Fleet

Ella Garth

Photo of Albert Salmi

Albert Salmi

Hank Bailey

Photo of Jay C. Flippen

Jay C. Flippen

Hamilton Garth

Photo of James Westerfield

James Westerfield

Cal Garth

Photo of Bruce Dern

Bruce Dern

Jack Roper

Photo of Barbara Loden

Barbara Loden

Betty Jackson

Photo of Frank Overton

Frank Overton

Walter Clark

Photo of Malcolm Atterbury

Malcolm Atterbury

Sy Moore

Photo of Robert Earl Jones

Robert Earl Jones

Sam Johnson (uncredited)

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