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Wild River

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NR,1hr 55min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1960
Director:
Elia Kazan
Starring:
Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet  ...more
Synopsis: Filmed on location in the Tennessee Valley, Wild River is set in the early 1930s. Montgomery Clift plays an idealistic TVA agent, assigned to convince the locals to move from their property so that a beneficial dam can be built. The principal holdout is feisty octogenarian Jo Van Fleet, who refuses to budge from her land, convinced that she will die if she ever gives an inch. Her prophecy turns out to be true, as Van Fleet becomes yet another sacrifice to progress. Clift also runs into opposition ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
Elia Kazan became a pariah for fingering supposed Communist sympathizers in the entertainment world during the HUAC hearings of the 1950s. But Kazan, himself a former leftist admirer of socialism, made many films which were powerfully liberal. One notable example is The Wild River, the 1960 story of an old woman who refuses to give up her property to the U.S. government's Tennessee Valley Authority ... Full Review
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Montgomery Clift
Chuck Glover
Lee Remick
Carol Garih
Jo Van Fleet
Ella Garth
Albert Salmi
Hank Bailey
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