The wild River

the wild River ( Wild To rivet ) is a film of Elia Kazan left in 1960.

Synopsis

During the New Deal, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) is sent in the south of the United States on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority, organization of State in charge of the construction of a stopping on the river, with an aim of damming up its risings devastators. Chuck has the role of obtaining inhabitants whom they agree to leave the zones intended to be flooded by work. On its arrival, there remains only one island whose inhabitants refuse expropriation. True mistress of the places, Ella Garth, (OJ Van Fleet) by her exaggerated obstinacy not to leave her grounds, quickly will prove to be an adversary of weight. Quiet, in withdrawal, his/her little girl Carole (Lee Remick) attracts the glance of Chuck…

Data sheet

Title: the wild River
original Title: Wild To rivet
Realization: Elia Kazan
Scenario: Paul Osborn
Production: Elia Kazan
Music: Kenyon Hopkins
Photography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Assembly:
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Color
Kind: Drama
Lasted: 110 minutes
Coming out date:

Distribution

Montgomery Clift : Chuck Glover
Lee Remick : Carol Garth Baldwin
OJ Van Fleet: Ella Garth
Jay Flippen: Hamilton Garth
James Westerfield: Cal Garth
Barbara Loden: Betty Jackson
Frank Overton: Walter Clark
Malcolm Atterbury: Sy Moore

Anecdote

The last plan of film shows us the finished stopping. It is acted in fact of the Barrage Hoover, which did not depend on Tennessee Valley Authority, since it is built on the Colorado.

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