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Dominican Rep. Wild River
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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). [+]
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"The movie is strong on period atmosphere and impressively performed" | POS |
United States |
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"It catches something timeless and essential in the human spirit and shapes it in the American image." | POS |
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"Kazan, perhaps better than any other director at the time, knew that land wasn’t everything.(...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" | POS |
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"Probably Elia Kazan's finest and deepest film" | POS |
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