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Il governo degli Stati Uniti, che ha deciso la costruzione di alcune dighe lungo il corso del fiume Tennesee, invia Chuck Glover a Garthville per seguire l'espropriazione di alcuni terreni. Ma un'anziana contadina, Ella Garth, rifiuta categoricamente di cedere la propria terra nonostante l'ingente somma offertale. Intanto Chuck si innamora della nipote di lei, Carol, e l'aiuta a costruire una casa. I tentativi di portare a termine l'esproprio portano grande scompiglio in città e profondo rancore nei confronti di Chuck la cui casa viene completamente distrutta. Alla morte di Ella, la proprietà viene venduta, e i due promessi decidono di ricominciare altrove una nuova vita.
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Wild River (1960)
110 min
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.