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    Wild River

    1960

    English

    7.5

    9

    92%

    84%

    1930s

    Action

    based on novel or book

    dam

    Drama

    flooding

    History

    river

    Romance

    tennessee

    Elia Kazan Elia Kazan Director Albert Salmi Albert Salmi as Hank Bailey Bruce Dern Bruce Dern as Jack Roper Malcolm Atterbury Malcolm Atterbury as Sy Moore Frank Overton Frank Overton as Walter Clark
    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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