Release Date

26 May, 1960

Runtime

01:50: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!

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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.

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Actors

Montgomery Clift

Lee Remick

Jo Van Fleet

Albert Salmi

Jay C. Flippen

James Westerfield

Bruce Dern

Barbara Loden

Frank Overton

Malcolm Atterbury

Robert Earl Jones

Crew

Herman A. Blumenthal

Lyle R. Wheeler

Anna Hill Johnstone

Haskell Wexler

Ben Nye

Don B. Greenwood

Helen Turpin

Clyde Taylor

Walter M. Scott

Charles H. Maguire

Leonard Doss

Joseph Kish

Eugene Grossman

Dick Vorisek