Wild River 1960

Name: Wild River
Released: 1960-05-26
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis:

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.

Directed by:	Elia Kazan
Written by:	Paul Osborn
Runtime:	110 minutes
Critics score:	100 / 100
Tagline:	The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!