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.
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C. Flippen, James Westerfield
Crew: Walter M. Scott (Set Decoration), Don B. Greenwood (Property Master), Anna Hill Johnstone (Costume Design), Ben Nye (Makeup Artist), Eugene Grossman (Sound), Clyde Taylor (Gaffer)
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Runtime: 110 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: May 26, 1960
IMDb: 3.69
Keywords:based on novel or book, river, flooding, tennessee, dam, 1930s, land dispute, preserved film
