Wild River (1960) - (Movie Clip) Rugged Individualism

Wild River (1960) -- (Movie Clip) He Told Me Never To Get Off

Stubborn Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) shows TVA-man Glover (Montgomery Clift) the grave of her husband, who told her never to give up the Tennessee River island he claimed, regardless of the new dam and the lake, her daughter Carol (Lee Remick) not exactly helping, in Elia Kazan’s Wild River, 1960.

Wild River (1960) -- (Movie Clip) This Whole Place Will Be Water

Montgomery Clift as Glover, the new Tennessee Valley Authority man, having noted the “TVA keep off” sign, not quite meeting matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet), who refuses to sell her land even though the new dam’s already been built, Lee Remick her near-silent daughter, early in Elia Kazan’s Wild River, 1960.

Wild River (1960) -- (Movie Clip) What's Senile?

New Tennessee Valley Authority rep Glover (Montgomery Clift) has just met the Garth brothers (J.C. Flippen, James Westerfield and musician Big Jeff Bess as Joe John), whose mother won’t sell their island so the new dam can be closed to form the lake, in Elia Kazan’s Wild River, 1960.