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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.
Theatrical
May 26, 1960
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 15, 2013
Theaters
3
Cast
Full credits →M
Montgomery Clift
Chuck Glover
L
Lee Remick
Carol Garth Baldwin
J
Jo Van Fleet
Ella Garth
A
Albert Salmi
Hank Bailey
J
Jay C. Flippen
Hamilton Garth
J
James Westerfield
Cal Garth
B
Bruce Dern
Jack Roper
B
Barbara Loden
Betty Jackson
F
Frank Overton
Walter Clark
M
Malcolm Atterbury
Sy Moore
R
Robert Earl Jones
Sam Johnson (uncredited)
