Wild River

About Wild River

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.

Wild River is a 1960 romance film directed by Elia Kazan. The film is filed under river, dam, flooding, and tennessee.

Montgomery Clift stars as Chuck Glover, Lee Remick as Carol Garth Baldwin, Jo Van Fleet as Ella Garth, and Albert Salmi as Hank Bailey. Released in May 1960, it runs 110 minutes.

The screenplay is by Paul Osborn. The story is adapted from a novel.

The Green Mile, The Notebook, and Murder on the Orient Express make useful companions to Wild River, all filed under 1930s. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 108 votes.