Wild River 1960

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.

Cast:

Montgomery Clift
Chuck Glover 

Bruce Dern
Jack Roper 

Malcolm Atterbury
Sy Moore 

Jay C. Flippen
Hamilton Garth 

James Westerfield
Cal Garth 

Lee Remick
Carol Garth Baldwin