Wild River
movie
The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!
Released May 26, 1960
Overview
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.
Cast
Montgomery Clift
as
Chuck Glover
Lee Remick
as
Carol Garth Baldwin
Jo Van Fleet
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Ella Garth
Albert Salmi
as
Hank Bailey
Jay C. Flippen
as
Hamilton Garth
James Westerfield
as
Cal Garth
Bruce Dern
as
Jack Roper
Barbara Loden
as
Betty Jackson
Frank Overton
as
Walter Clark
Malcolm Atterbury
as
Sy Moore
Robert Earl Jones
as
Sam Johnson (uncredited)
Crew
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Herman A. Blumenthal
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Art Direction
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Lyle R. Wheeler
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Art Direction
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Anna Hill Johnstone
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Costume Design
Haskell Wexler
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Additional Photography
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Ben Nye
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Makeup Artist
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Don B. Greenwood
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Property Master
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Helen Turpin
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Hairstylist
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Clyde Taylor
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Gaffer
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Walter M. Scott
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Set Decoration
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Charles H. Maguire
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Assistant Director
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Leonard Doss
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Colorist
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Joseph Kish
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Set Decoration