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.
00:05:28 and once they close those gates and the water starts to rise...
00:08:37 There'll be 20 feet of water there.
00:14:32 Uncle Hamilton and Uncle Cal are by the stream.
00:17:29 What's senile?
00:20:59 I'm telling you this
00:24:34 Joe John is real sorry for what he done yesterday.
00:28:48 I stay right here in this land.
00:32:54 But Granma doesn't believe in giving up.
00:36:15 I've got an idea.
00:42:15 Yeah.
00:46:43 and every man, black or white, gets paid the same.
00:49:21 We made it all right with him.
00:54:02 Don't walk in front of me.
01:00:42 We better go get some groceries.
01:04:56 Little rabbit, little white rabbit...
01:09:03 Go on home.
01:13:28 Our friend in Number 3 needs change for this ten.
01:17:29 This here is Mr. Armstrong, our lawyer.
01:21:42 You look tired. What you been doing all day?
01:26:14 How?
01:30:18 I don't know what's happening.
01:33:48 Anything I can do for you, Mrs. Carol?
03:00:00 and Ella Garth won't sell.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,110
Dialogue density10.1 lines / min
First line00:01:58
Final line03:00:00
Production Record
DirectorElia Kazan
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes6,421