

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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- Released
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- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- river
- flooding
- tennessee
- dam
- 1930s
- land dispute
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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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