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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.
Keywords
based on novel or book
river
flooding
tennessee
dam
1930s
land dispute
Casts

Montgomery Clift
Chuck Glover

Lee Remick
Carol Garth Baldwin

Jo Van Fleet
Ella Garth

Albert Salmi
Hank Bailey

Jay C. Flippen
Hamilton Garth

James Westerfield
Cal Garth

Bruce Dern
Jack Roper

Barbara Loden
Betty Jackson

Frank Overton
Walter Clark

Malcolm Atterbury
Sy Moore

Robert Earl Jones
Sam Johnson (uncredited)
Crews
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
Leonard Doss
Colorist
Helen Turpin
Hairstylist
Joseph Kish
Set Decoration
Dick Vorisek
Sound

Haskell Wexler
Additional Photography
Charles H. Maguire
Assistant Director
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
Herman A. Blumenthal
Art Direction

Elia Kazan
Director

Paul Osborn
Screenplay
Borden Deal
Novel
William Reynolds
Editor

Kenyon Hopkins
Music
Ellsworth Fredericks
Director of Photography

Elia Kazan
Producer
William Bradford Huie
Novel
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