Wild River

Wild River (1960)

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

TMDb

7.3

26/05/1960 • 1h 50m
original-title

Wild River

status

Released

production-companies

20th Century Fox

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

-

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.

director
production-countries

United States of America

spoken-languages

English

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