Released:
1960-05-26

Overview:
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.

Director:
Elia Kazan

Runtime:
1h 50min

Genre:
Drama, Romance

• Cast:
• 
  Montgomery Clift
  as
  Chuck Glover
• 
  Lee Remick
  as
  Carol Garth Baldwin
• 
  Jo Van Fleet
  as
  Ella Garth
• 
  Albert Salmi
  as
  Hank Bailey
• 
  Jay C. Flippen
  as
  Hamilton Garth