Wild River

“The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!”

Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) is sent by the Tennessee Valley Authority to rural Tennessee, where a new dam will flood the land, and one old woman will not leave her island in the river. Elia Kazan sets Chuck against Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) and a town that resents the pay he gives to its black laborers. Meanwhile Chuck finds himself drawn to Ella's widowed granddaughter, Carol (Lee Remick), who lives on the island with her two children.