Wild River (1960)

Movie"The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!"
Audience Score
73
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.

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:May 26th, 1960 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:January 15th, 2013 - Buy DVD
Original Language:English
Production Companies:20th Century Fox