Wild River

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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  Charles H. Maguire
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  Elia Kazan

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  Montgomery Clift
  Chuck Glover
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  Lee Remick
  Carol Garth Baldwin
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  Jo Van Fleet
  Ella Garth
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  Albert Salmi
  Hank Bailey
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  Jay C. Flippen
  Hamilton Garth
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  James Westerfield
  Cal Garth
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  Bruce Dern
  Jack Roper
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  Barbara Loden
  Betty Jackson
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  Frank Overton
  Walter Clark
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  Malcolm Atterbury
  Sy Moore
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  Robert Earl Jones
  Sam Johnson (uncredited)