Wild River

Wild River (1960) Poster

Interactive Features for Wild River

Wild River offers interactive tools beyond traditional movie databases:

Story Analysis

Conflict between progress and tradition as the TVA attempts to relocate river residents

Drama, Romance · 7.3/10 · 110 min · 1960

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.

Credits

Videos

Images