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Wild River

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7.2
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Original title
Wild River
Year
Running time
109 min.
Country
United States United States
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Cast
Music
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Genre
Drama | 1930s. Small Town Life (North-american). Southern Gothic
Synopsis
A young idealistic Tennessee Valley Authority administrator, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) comes to a small town in Tennessee to enforce the clearing of the land to be flooded by a new dam on the Tennessee River in the early 1930s. An aging 80-year-old matriarch, Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet), refuses to sell her land to the federal government, while Glover falls in love with the matriarch's granddaughter, Carol Garth Baldwin (Lee Remick).
Awards
1960: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection
1960: National Board of Review: Top 10 Best Films
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User history
Wild River
1960
Elia Kazan
7.2
(1,928)
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