Wild River
“The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!”
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.
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Cast
11 people
Montgomery Clift
Chuck Glover
Known for
I Confess
A Place in the Sun
Lee Remick
Carol Garth Baldwin
Known for
The Omen
Anatomy of a Murder
Jo Van Fleet
Ella Garth
Known for
The Tenant
East of Eden
Albert Salmi
Hank Bailey
Known for
Caddyshack
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Jay C. Flippen
Hamilton Garth
Known for
The Killing
The Wild One
James Westerfield
Cal Garth
Known for
On the Waterfront
Hang 'em High
Bruce Dern
Jack Roper
Known for
Nebraska
The Hateful Eight
Barbara Loden
Betty Jackson
Known for
Wanda
Splendor in the Grass
Frank Overton
Walter Clark
Known for
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fail Safe
Malcolm Atterbury
Sy Moore
Known for
The Birds
Rio Bravo
Robert Earl Jones
Sam Johnson (uncredited)
Known for
The Sting
Sleepaway Camp
Elia Kazan Director · Paul Osborn Screenplay William Bradford Huie Author
Worldwide gross $1.5M · Budget $1.6M · United States release May 26, 1960
Box office
Budget
$1,595,000
Worldwide gross
$1,500,000
Gross vs. budget
0.9×
Production
20th Century Fox
Production
20th Century Studios
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · May 26, 1960
Theatrical
Germany
August 11, 1960 · Theatrical · Centfox
Ireland
June 23, 1960 · Theatrical
Portugal
April 13, 1961 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
June 23, 1960 · Theatrical
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