Wild River
The wild language…the wild hungers…the wild furies!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 15, 2013
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi & Jay C. Flippen | |
Performer: | James Westerfield, Barbara Loden, Frank Overton & Malcolm Atterbury | |
Directed by | Elia Kazan | |
Edited by | William Reynolds | |
Narrated by | Pat Hingle | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Osborn | |
Screenplay by | Paul Osborn | |
Composition by | Kenyon Hopkins | |
Art Direction by | Herman A. Blumenthal & Lyle R. Wheeler | |
Produced by | Elia Kazan | |
Director of Photography: | Ellsworth Fredericks |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Evocative sociological/historical melodrama.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The grim inevitability of the eviction gives the film a melancholy power.
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Film4
Rating: 4/5 --
Kazan's films are better known for showcasing stratospheric Method-emoting over visual expressiveness, which makes Wild River's gorgeous imagery a shock...
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Shooting predominantly on location in Tennessee, Kazan makes evocative use of the mist that hangs over the river like a lingering regret.
Times (UK)
One of [Kazan's] least theatrical and most affecting films.
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Time Out
Rating: 5/5 --
It's an expansive work, distinguished by exceptional location photography, but, as ever, (Kazan's) focus is on complex interpersonal relationships.
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The Skinny
Both sections of the flavorful, vernacular-filled screen play have been given professional treatment.
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New York Times
Product Description:
Filmed on location in the Tennessee Valley, WILD RIVER is set in the early 1930s. Montgomery Clift plays an idealistic TVA agent, assigned to convince the locals to move from their property so that a beneficial dam can be built. The principal holdout is feisty octogenarian Jo Van Fleet, who refuses to budge from her land, convinced that she will die if she ever gives an inch. Her prophecy turns out to be true, as Van Fleet becomes yet another sacrifice to progress. Clift also runs into opposition because of his fair treatment of the local black population. Lee Remick costars as Van Fleet's granddaughter, who comes to love and understand the sensitive Clift. Some dated fuzzy-headed liberalism aside, WILD RIVER is a masterful recreation of a difficult, complex period in American history. Watch for an uncredited Bruce Dern in his film debut.
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