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Wild River
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Runtime
110 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
6.45
Director
Elia Kazan
Writers
Paul Osborn

Wild River

1960 · ⭐ 7.5 · Votes: 66
“The wild language…the wild hungers…the wild furies!”
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. 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 an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.

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