Wild River
1960 · 110 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 6,421 VOTES · DIR. Elia Kazan
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,110 lines
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00:01:58 We got out of the car and got swept down the stream.
00:05:26 The dam is finished
00:08:17 There must be some way, don't you think?
00:14:21 Barbara Ann, where are the men working?
00:17:16 Joe John.
00:20:30 Yes, they gotta get the votes somehow.
00:23:32 You ain't got no right to make me.
00:27:31 and I ain't crawling for no damn government.
00:32:20 We lived on the other bank, in a white house. Did you see it?
00:35:40 The force of water coming down the mountain.
00:39:42 is this the first time you've been back?
00:46:06 They want to work!
00:48:34 I'll go out myself for five dollars a day.
00:52:58 I've got to protect myself, Chuck.
00:59:02 Go!
01:03:14 Besides...
01:07:11 It ought to be over pretty soon, oughtn't it?
01:11:33 You see, Mr. Glover
01:15:33 I understand you, Mrs. Garth.
01:19:32 This house is coming down!
01:23:35 Good night, Frances.
01:28:11 And I love you.
01:31:58 -Sure has been fitting to meet you. -When are you going home?
01:36:59 Signed, Allan R. Nealy, District judge."
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,110
Dialogue density10.1 lines / min
First line00:01:58
Final line01:36:59
Production Record
DirectorElia Kazan
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes6,421