Wild River

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Wild River is a 1960 American drama film about a Tennessee Valley Authority agent’s clash with a stubborn matriarch over land expropriation during the New Deal era.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American drama film
film
aspectOf Tennessee Valley Authority in popular culture
award National Board of Review
surface form: National Board of Review Top Ten Films (1960)
basedOn novel "Dunbar's Cove" by Borden Deal
novel "Mud on the Stars" by William Bradford Huie
cinematographyBy Ellsworth Fredericks
colorProcess DeLuxe Color
surface form: Color by DeLuxe
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depictsOrganization Tennessee Valley Authority
director Elia Kazan
distributedBy 20th Century Fox
editedBy William Reynolds
filmingLocation Tennessee
genre drama film
hasFormat theatrical release
hasTheme displacement of rural communities
federal authority and individual rights
modernization versus tradition
language English
mainCharacter Chuck Glover
Ella Garth
medium feature film
musicBy Kenyon Hopkins
narrativeFocus clash between TVA agent and local matriarch
conflict over land expropriation
notableFor portrayal of TVA dam projects and forced relocation
originalLanguage English
partOf Elia Kazan filmography
portraysCharacter Jo Van Fleet as Ella Garth
Lee Remick as Carol Garth Baldwin
Montgomery Clift as Chuck Glover
producer Elia Kazan
productionCompany 20th Century Fox
surface form: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
releaseDate 1960-04-26
releaseYear 1960
runtimeMinutes 110
screenplayAdaptationOf Southern United States rural novels
screenwriter Paul Osborn
setInPeriod New Deal
surface form: New Deal era
setInPlace Tennessee Valley
starring Barbara Loden
Bruce Dern
Jay C. Flippen
Jo Van Fleet
Lee Remick
Montgomery Clift
timeSetting 1930s

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Elia Kazan directed Wild River
Elias Kazantzoglou directed Wild River
subject surface form: Elia Kazan
Montgomery Clift notableWork Wild River