Film
Wild River
- 7:10PM
This unheralded Kazan masterpiece—a timeless study of American individualism in conflict with the interests of broader society—features Actors Studio members Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, and Jo Van Fleet. Clift gives his greatest late-career performance as Chuck Glover, an ambitious Tennessee Valley Authority administrator overseeing the construction of a new dam in a small town threatened by flooding. As Glover tries to convince the town's stubborn matriarch, 80-year-old Ella Garth (Van Fleet in a performance of Shakespearean grandeur) to leave her home, he begins an affair with her beloved granddaughter Carol (Remick), setting in motion a chain of events that will transform all involved, and the surrounding town, forever.
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