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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Wild River was released in 1960 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 30 reviews, giving Wild River (1960) an average rating of 76%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 85%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 80%.
With a score of 76%, Wild River is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1960, which stands at 62%.
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