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Wild River

The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!

7.2(108)19601h 50m2

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • river
  • flooding
  • tennessee
  • dam
  • 1930s
  • land dispute

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Elia Kazan

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical26 May 1960
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPG23 Jun 1960
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical12Centfox11 Aug 1960
  • IrelandIE

    • TheatricalPG23 Jun 1960
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatrical13 Apr 1961

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Wild River was released on 26 May 1960.

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