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Wild River

"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.

Release Date 1960-05-26
Rating 7.367 / 10 (75 votes)
Runtime 110 minutes
Budget $0
Revenue $0

Genres: Drama, Romance

Directors: Elia Kazan

Writers: Borden Deal, Paul Osborn, William Bradford Huie

IMDB: tt0054476


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