Wild River

The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!

Wild River — Plot

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.

• Release date
• May 26, 1960
• Runtime
• 110 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Elia Kazan

Wild River — Cast

Montgomery Clift Chuck Glover Lee Remick Carol Garth Baldwin Jo Van Fleet Ella Garth Albert Salmi Hank Bailey Jay C. Flippen Hamilton Garth James Westerfield Cal Garth Bruce Dern Jack Roper Barbara Loden Betty Jackson