Wild River (1960)
7.31
/10 By 87 Votes
Overview : 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 : 110m
Companies : 20th Century Fox
Countries : United States of America
Keywords : based on novel or book, river, flooding, tennessee, dam, 1930s, land dispute, preserved film
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