Somewhat. More sad than 61% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Wild River easy watching?

Somewhat. More comforting than 60% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Does Wild River end with hope?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Wild River violent?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Wild River

Name: Wild River
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1960
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C. Flippen

The Wild Language... The Wild Hungers... The Wild Furies!

Directed by Elia Kazan

Produced by 20th Century Fox

1960110 min7.2 / 10

A mid-century drama about progress versus tradition, anchored by a tender romance and the clash between bureaucratic modernization and rural resistance in Depression-era Tennessee.

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.

Clusters

Ordinary Lives During Historic Events Water and Waterways U S States And Regions Conflict And Contrasts Period Setting By Decade

Genres

Drama Romance

Keywords

Based On Novel Or Book River Flooding Tennessee Dam 1930s Land Dispute

Questions people ask

Is Wild River sad? Somewhat. More sad than 61% of films.
Is Wild River easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 60% of films.
Is Wild River scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.
Does Wild River end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Is Wild River violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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