Wild River (1960)
Directed by Elia Kazan
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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What critics compared Wild River to
Its closest relatives are Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter and Elia Kazan's Wild River , but shot through with the “gritty” vision of cruddy home life and bayou listlessness of Lance Hammer's Ballast .
The family home, like those in Elia Kazan's "Wild River," is threatened by demolition; it's smack on the banks of an unpredictable waterway.