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  1. Plot. In 1937, Chuck Glover ( Montgomery Clift ), the new head of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) land purchasing office, arrives in Garthville, Tennessee, a town located upstream from a new hydroelectric dam. Glover is supervising the clearing of the land to be flooded.

  2. Wild River: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi. 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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    • Drama, History, Romance
    • Elia Kazan
    • 1960-05-25
  3. His plans meet with opposition in the form of the town's stubborn matriarch, 80-year-old Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet), who refuses to leave. As Glover attempts to convince Garth, he falls in love ...

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    • Montgomery Clift
    • Elia Kazan
    • Drama
  4. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A government employee faces hostility as he prepares Tennessee farmers for a new dam's construction. Cast & Crew. Read More. Elia Kazan. Director. Montgomery Clift. Chuck Glover. Lee Remick. Carol Baldwin. Jo Van Fleet. Ella Garth. Albert Salmi. Hank Bailey. J. C. Flippen. Hamilton Garth.

    • Elia Kazan, Charles Maguire
    • Montgomery Clift
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  6. Wild River - YouTube. YouTube Movies & TV. 180M subscribers. Subscribed. 87. A 1930s Tennessee Valley Authority agent, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift), is sent to oversee the completion of...

  7. Wild River is a film that blends the lyrical romanticism of John Ford with the nature poetry of Robert Flaherty. Elia Kazan returns to set one of his films in the South of the United States, although this once he goes back in time to the quiet, rolling landscapes of the 1930s and the great public works promoted by Roosevelt in the Tennessee Valley.

  8. Wild River (1960) is a gorgeous, intelligent, surprising film. It is about change. It is about the clash of cultures. It is about love and possibility.

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