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. 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.

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  Montgomery Clift

  Chuck Glover
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  Lee Remick

  Carol Garth Baldwin
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  Jo Van Fleet

  Ella Garth
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  Albert Salmi

  Hank Bailey
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  Jay C. Flippen

  Hamilton Garth
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  James Westerfield

  Cal Garth
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  Bruce Dern

  Jack Roper
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  Barbara Loden

  Betty Jackson
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  Frank Overton

  Walter Clark
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  Malcolm Atterbury

  Sy Moore