Wild River
1960 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
A young idealistic Tennessee Valley Authority administrator, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) comes to a small town in Tennessee to enforce the clearing of the land to be flooded by a new dam on the Tennessee River in the early 1930s. An aging 80-year-old matriarch, Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet), refuses to sell her land to the federal government, while Glover falls in love with the matriarch's granddaughter, Carol Garth Baldwin (Lee Remick).
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Montgomery Clift · Lee Remick · Jo Van Fleet · Albert Salmi · Jay C. Flippen · James Westerfield · Bruce Dern · Barbara Loden
Soundtrack Kenyon Hopkins
Screenplay Paul Osborn
Cinematography Ellsworth Fredericks
Original title Wild River
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2K votes (FilmAffinity)
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