The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies! - Wild River
Movie Details
Title: Wild River
Release Date: 26 May 1960
Runtime: 1h 50m
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: 20th Century Fox
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox
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.
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Average Vote: 7.3 (95 votes)
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