Wild River (1960)
overview : 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.
Release Date : May 26, 1960
Runtime : 1h 50m
Companies : 20th Century Fox
Countries : United States of America
Keywords : based on novel or book, river, flooding, tennessee, dam, 1930s, land dispute