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Wild River ()

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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.
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Chuck Glover
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Carol Garth Baldwin
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Ella Garth
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Hank Bailey
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Hamilton Garth (as J.C. Flippen)
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Cal Garth
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Betty Jackson
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Walter Clark
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Sy Moore
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
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)
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Jack Roper (uncredited)
Mike Dodd ...
Sheriff Hogue (uncredited)
John Dudley ...
Todd (uncredited)
David Ferrell ...
Small Role (uncredited)
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Small Role (uncredited)
Judy Harris ...
Barbara Baldwin (uncredited)
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Narrator (uncredited) (voice)
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Sam Johnson (uncredited)
Grover Lawson ...
Bus Driver (uncredited)
Jim Menard ...
Jim Baldwin Jr. (uncredited)
Mark Menson ...
Winters (uncredited)
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Self (uncredited)
Patricia Perry ...
Mattie (uncredited)
Alfred E. Smith ...
Thompson (uncredited)
Edna Snapp ...
Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Jim Steakley ...
Mayor Tom Maynard (uncredited)
Earl Williamson ...
Small Role (uncredited)
C.C.L. Wray ...
Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

Directed by

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Elia Kazan

Written by

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Paul Osborn ... (screenplay)
 
William Bradford Huie ... (based on novels by) and
Borden Deal ... (based on novels by)

Produced by

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Elia Kazan ... producer

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Kenyon Hopkins ... (music composed by)

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Ellsworth Fredericks ... director of photography (as Ellsworth Fredricks)

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William Reynolds ... film editor

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Leonard Doss ... color consultant

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Herman A. Blumenthal
Lyle R. Wheeler

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Joseph Kish ... (set decorations)
Walter M. Scott ... (set decorations)

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Anna Hill Johnstone ... (costumes designed by)

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Ben Nye ... makeup
Helen Turpin ... hair stylist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Charles H. Maguire ... assistant director (as Charles Maguire)

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Don B. Greenwood ... property master (uncredited)

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Eugene Grossman ... sound
Dick Vorisek ... sound (as Richard Vorisek)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Clyde Taylor ... gaffer (uncredited)
Haskell Wexler ... additional photographer (uncredited)

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Kenyon Hopkins ... conductor
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Plot Summary

A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. 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 an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Written by Sam Neff

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Taglines The Wild Language...The Wild Hungers...The Wild Furies! See more »
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Also Known As
  • God's Valley (United States)
  • Mud on the Stars (United States)
  • New Face in the Valley (United States)
  • The Woman and the Wild River (United States)
  • Time and Tide (United States)
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  • 110 min
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Budget $1,595,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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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. See more »
Goofs When Chuck and Carol stop for gas, a torn movie poster is displayed prominently on the wall of the station. Although the title and the name of the players have been ripped off, it's quite obviously Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) with the images of its three stars, Claudette Colbert, George Brent, and Orson Welles, easily identifiable; this film was not actually produced until 12 years later, in 1945, and released in 1946. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The Director: A Matter of Viewpoint (1968). See more »
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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.
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