Wild River (1960)

Wild River | United States of America

A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. 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 an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.

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Director

Elia Kazan

Writers

Paul Osborn

Stars

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

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Keywords

based on novel, 1930s, river, tennessee, dam, flooding, land dispute

Production

20th Century Fox

Actor

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

Creators

Elia Kazan (Director), Paul Osborn (Screenplay), William Reynolds (Editor), Kenyon Hopkins (Music), Ellsworth Fredericks (Director of Photography), William Bradford Huie (Novel), Borden Deal (Novel)

Alternative titles

Roodkhane Vahshi (IR)
분노의 강 (KR)

Release dates

26.05.1960 (US)