Wild River

Wild River

Year: 1960

Runtime: 110 mins

Language: English

Director: Elia Kazan

DramaRomancePolitics and human rightsMoving relationship storiesRacism and the powerful fight for justice

A young Tennessee Valley Authority bureaucrat is sent to rural Tennessee to oversee dam construction. He meets resistance, especially from a farmer who opposes hiring black laborers. The plot centers on evicting an octogenarian from her river‑island home and his romance with her widowed granddaughter. The film has been preserved by the Academy Film Archive with The Film Foundation.

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