Wild River (film)

Wild River
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Elia Kazan
Screenplay by	Paul Osborn
Based on	Dunbar's Cove 1957 novel by Borden Deal Mud on the Stars 1942 novel William Bradford Huie
Produced by	Elia Kazan
Starring	Montgomery Clift Lee Remick Jo Van Fleet
Cinematography	Ellsworth Fredricks
Edited by	William H. Reynolds
Music by	Kenyon Hopkins
Color process	Color by DeLuxe
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	May 25, 1960 (1960-05-25)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,595,000[1]

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.