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Wild River (1960)

May 26, 1960 · 1h 50m

7.2/10 TMDB user score
108 votes on TMDB

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

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.

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Top cast

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

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