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Wild River is a 1960 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet.
Wild River: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi. A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
- (6.2K)
- Drama, History, Romance
- Elia Kazan
- 1960-05-25
Released May 22, 1960 1h 50m Drama. List. Eager to further his career, ambitious Tennessee Valley Authority administrator Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) journeys to a small town to oversee the...
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- Montgomery Clift
- Elia Kazan
- Drama
Brief Synopsis. A government employee faces hostility as he prepares Tennessee farmers for a new dam's construction.
- Elia Kazan, Charles Maguire
- Montgomery Clift
Starring Montgomery Clift as a government official tasked with removing a stubborn plantation owner from land slated to be flooded in a river damming, the film imbues one of Kazan’s archetypical Good Authority Figures with a deeper compassion, courtesy of the movie’s lead actor.
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- 20th Century Fox
- Elia Kazan
Wild River is a 1960 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet.
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers.