Wild River
In the early 1930s, Chuck Glover, a
8 July 1932, Marion, North Carolina, USA
20 February 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
29 December 1915, Oakland, California, USA
9 July 1936, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
6 March 1899, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
14 December 1935, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
22 March 1913, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3 February 1910, Senatobia, Mississippi, USA
11 March 1927, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 March 1918, Babylon, New York, USA
19 July 1924, Miami, Florida, USA
17 October 1920, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
March 16, 2015
It's an expansive work, distinguished by exceptional location photography, but, as ever, (Kazan's) focus is on complex interpersonal relationships.
February 19, 2015
Montgomery Clift gives a superbly tender performance in one of his last and most tortured roles, and Lee Remick is touching as his confidante.
February 19, 2015
In studying a slice of national socio-economic progress in terms of people, it catches something timeless and essential in the human spirit and shapes it in the American image.
November 17, 2011
This dramatic tug-of-war between progress and tradition remains a memorable example of director Kazan at his best.
October 21, 2009
Kazan's films are better known for showcasing stratospheric Method-emoting over visual expressiveness, which makes Wild River's gorgeous imagery a shock...
February 19, 2015
This 1960 drama is probably Elia Kazan's finest and deepest film, a meditation on how the past both inhibits and enriches the present.
October 14, 2009
Sympathetic to both sides, the movie pits tradition against progress, rugged individualism against the greater good.
November 18, 2011
One of [Kazan's] least theatrical and most affecting films.
February 19, 2015
Shooting predominantly on location in Tennessee, Kazan makes evocative use of the mist that hangs over the river like a lingering regret.
January 22, 2008
Evocative sociological/historical melodrama.
February 19, 2015
Both sections of the flavorful, vernacular-filled screen play have been given professional treatment.
February 19, 2015
The grim inevitability of the eviction gives the film a melancholy power.
