Wild River (1960)
- Directed by
- Elia Kazan
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 102 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Tennessee Valley Authority agent tries to persuade an elderly widow to sell her land for a dam project. He clashes with her and her family while also falling in love with her granddaughter.
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What happens
Wild River is a 1960 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, and Jo Van Fleet. It was filmed in the Tennessee Valley, and was adapted by Paul Osborn from two novels: Borden Deal's Dunbar's Cove and William Bradford Huie's Mud on the Stars, drawing for plot from Deal's story of a battle of wills between the nascent Tennessee Valley Authority and generations-old land owners, and from Huie's study of a rural Southern matriarchal family for characters and their reaction to destruction of their land, and the controversial employment of African-American laborers by the TVA. It marked Bruce Dern's film debut. The film was selected for National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2002. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Barn Red (2004)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.