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.

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!