Wild River
The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!
110 mins
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.
Herman A. Blumenthal
Art Direction
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
Anna Hill Johnstone
Costume Design
Ben Nye
Makeup Artist
Don B. Greenwood
Property Master
Helen Turpin
Hairstylist
Clyde Taylor
Gaffer
Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration
Charles H. Maguire
Assistant Director
Leonard Doss
Colorist
Joseph Kish
Set Decoration
Eugene Grossman
Sound
Dick Vorisek
Sound
William Reynolds
Editor
Borden Deal
Novel
Ellsworth Fredericks
Director of Photography