Wild River (film) - Wikipedia
WEBWild River is a film directed by Elia Kazan, starring Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick, about the conflict between the TVA and a Tennessee family. The film explores themes of nature, racism, and love in the context of the New Deal and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Wild River (1960) - IMDb
WEBA TVA bureaucrat tries to evict an old woman from her island in the Tennessee River, but faces opposition from the local people and falls in love with her granddaughter. The film explores the themes of progress, tradition, and racism in 1930s America.
Wild River (1960) - Turner Classic Movies
WEBAn offscreen narrator provides the film's historical background, stating that on May 18, 1933, Congress created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a massive public works program designed to end the loss of life and property caused by the overflowing of the Tennessee River.
Wild River (1960) - Wild River (1960) - User Reviews - IMDb
WEBIn the middle of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority is building dams across the great river to prevent the calamitous periodic floods and provide jobs for the people of Appalachia.
Wild River - Rotten Tomatoes
WEBEager to further his career, ambitious Tennessee Valley Authority administrator Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) journeys to a small town to oversee the clearing of the valley in preparation for...
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Wild River (1960) - Plot - IMDb
WEBChuck Glover, a big city northerner, is the latest and probably last in long line of people hired to head a property acquisition field office of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the job which has taken its toll on his predecessors.
Wild River (1960) - Movie | Moviefone
WEBA young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam.
Wild River (1960) - The Movie Database (TMDB)
WEBA 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 (1960) directed by Elia Kazan - Letterboxd
WEBA 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 (1960) - Elia Kazan | Synopsis, Movie Info, Moods, …
WEBThe film was shot on location in the Tennessee Valley, and was adapted by Paul Osborn from two novels: Borden Deal's Dunbar's Cove and William Bradford Huie's Mud on the Stars, drawing for plot from Deal's story of a battle of wills between the nascent Tennessee Valley Authority and generations-old land owners, and from Huie's study of a rural ...