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 refuses to leave her home on an island in the River. The young man’s life starts to change when he begins a love affair with that woman`s widowed granddaughter.
Film restored by the Academy Film Archive and Twentieth Century Fox with funding provided by The Film Foundation.
Wild River
1960
110 min.
Fiction
USA
Colorido
Elia Kazan
Paul Osborn
Ellsworth Fredericks
William Reynolds
Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C. Flippen
Elia Kazan
Twentieth Century Fox
Kenyon Hopkins
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