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Wild River

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  • 1h 50m
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7.5/10
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Wild River (1960)
A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
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A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
5.7K
YOUR RATING
    • Elia Kazan
    • Paul Osborn(screenplay)
    • William Bradford Huie(based on novels by)
    • Borden Deal(based on novels by)
  • Stars
    • Montgomery Clift
    • Lee Remick
    • Jo Van Fleet
    • Elia Kazan
    • Paul Osborn(screenplay)
    • William Bradford Huie(based on novels by)
    • Borden Deal(based on novels by)
  • Stars
    • Montgomery Clift
    • Lee Remick
    • Jo Van Fleet
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    • 55User reviews
    • 41Critic reviews
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    Montgomery Clift
    Montgomery Clift
    • Chuck Glover
    Lee Remick
    Lee Remick
    • Carol Garth Baldwin
    Jo Van Fleet
    Jo Van Fleet
    • Ella Garth
    Albert Salmi
    Albert Salmi
    • Hank Bailey
    Jay C. Flippen
    Jay C. Flippen
    • Hamilton Garth
    • (as J.C. Flippen)
    James Westerfield
    James Westerfield
    • Cal Garth
    Barbara Loden
    Barbara Loden
    • Betty Jackson
    Frank Overton
    Frank Overton
    • Walter Clark
    Malcolm Atterbury
    Malcolm Atterbury
    • Sy Moore
    Mark Anthony
    • Night Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Ross Apperson
    • Attorney Armstrong
    • (uncredited)
    Big Jeff Bess
    • Joe John Garth
    • (uncredited)
    James Campbell
    • Small Role
    • (uncredited)
    Donna Carnegie
    • Small Role
    • (uncredited)
    Bruce Dern
    Bruce Dern
    • Jack Roper
    • (uncredited)
    Mike Dodd
    • Sheriff Hogue
    • (uncredited)
    John Dudley
    • Todd
    • (uncredited)
    David Ferrell
    • Small Role
    • (uncredited)
      • Elia Kazan
      • Paul Osborn(screenplay)
      • William Bradford Huie(based on novels by)
      • Borden Deal(based on novels by)
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    • Trivia
      Lee Remick picked out two local Charleston kids to play her children. She chose the little girl because she looked like Lee at age 7. She chose the little boy because he loved hugging and kissing Lee.
    • Goofs
      The last part of the movie shows Fontana Dam. For some reason this picture has been reversed - the observation area is actually on the right of the dam not the left (creek side of dam). Also the last picture is not this dam. Fontana Dam is built straight where the last dam is curved. The curved dam is Calderwood Dam, the 2nd dam down the Little Tennessee River from Fontana Dam.
    • Quotes

      Carol Garth Baldwin: [to Chuck] I'm leaving here, with you or without you, but I want you to know something... I'd be a good wife for you. A DAMN good wife. I'm smarter than you in some ways and I know what's good about you and I know what's bad and I'm not afraid to tell you... I have two children who love you. They love you and I love you... and you're not easy to love, but you do need someone... and I love you. I love you, I love you.

    • Connections
      Featured in Mirror for Our Dreams: The Director: A Matter of Viewpoint (1968)
    • Soundtracks
      In the Garden
      (uncredited)

      Written by Austin Miles

      Sung by Lee Remick

    User reviews55

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    Jo Van Fleet - Underrated Genius
    This is a most remarkable film, chronicling a piece of Americana and presenting a compelling image of the tragedy of progress. And it is Jo Van Fleet whose utterly convincing and captivating portrayal of an 80-year old hillbilly woman (she herself was 45 years old) makes WILD RIVER a masterpiece. To reiterate what others have stated, the fact that her performance was not even nominated for an Oscar is an outrage! I tend to disagree with other reviewers in regards to the subplot between Monty Clift and Lee Remick; I feel their scene slow things down and I find myself fast-forwarding past them to get to the match of will between Clift and Van Fleet. I do, however, understand the necessity of the Chuck/Carol love affair - here you have a stubborn old woman who simply refuses to leave her lifelong home and a sensuous young woman who simply begs to get out! And Monty Clift becomes nemesis and savior. But their scenes together are a total yawn when the good stuff involves the reason Clift is there to begin with - not just his cat-and-mouse with Van Fleet, but all the other obstacles he faces from the rest of the populace of the rural south in the 1930's.

    Still, an incredible film and worth viewing over and over again.
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    • mrbentley2
    • Nov 22, 2005

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    • Release date
      • May 25, 1960 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Cleveland, Tennessee, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • 1 hour 50 minutes
      • Color
      • 4-Track Stereo

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