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Director:
Writers:
Paul Osborn (screenplay)
William Bradford Huie (novel) ...
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Release Date:
26 March 1960 (USA) more
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Plot:
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
The Auteurs Daily: New York, New York
 (From The Auteurs. 23 October 2009, 1:21 PM, PDT)

Actor Robert Earl Jones, Father of James Earl Jones, Dies
 (From WENN. 20 September 2006)

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An almost forgotten masterpiece more (27 total)

Cast

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Montgomery Clift ... Chuck Glover
Lee Remick ... Carol Garth Baldwin
Jo Van Fleet ... Ella Garth
Albert Salmi ... Hank Bailey
Jay C. Flippen ... Hamilton Garth (as J.C. Flippen)
James Westerfield ... Cal Garth
Barbara Loden ... Betty Jackson

Frank Overton ... Walter Clark

Malcolm Atterbury ... Sy Moore
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Additional Details

Runtime:
110 min | Argentina:112 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System) | 4-Track Stereo
Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #19552) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (2004) | Germany:12

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Trivia:
Elia Kazan was always fond of this movie and sometimes even said it was his favorite of all the films he made. In the 1970s he tried to buy the rights so that he could re-release it to the public, but the studio's asking price was too high for him. more
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Anachronisms: At the beginning of the film Chuck comes to town on a Greyhound bus. The bus is a late 40's early 50's model bus. Much larger then the buses used in 1934. more
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An almost forgotten masterpiece, 12 April 2001
10/10

WILD RIVER is one of Elia Kazan's best films, with brilliant affecting performances, beautiful cinematography, atmospheric settings, and a multilayered plot with important thematic points to make about the rights of the individual vs. the needs of the larger society as a whole. Jo Van Fleet gives one of the all time great performances of the screen in this film as far as I'm concerned. The music is also beautiful and evokes the time and place of the setting, 1930s Tennessee.Why isn't this film on video? Wonderful, one of my favorite movies.

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