| Release Date: | Mar 1960 |
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| Genres: | Drama / Romance |
| Awards: | 1 win & 1 nomination |
| Cast: | Montgomery Clift (Chuck Glover), Lee Remick (Carol Garth Baldwin), Jo Van Fleet (Ella Garth), Albert Salmi (Hank Bailey), Jay C. Flippen (Hamilton Garth (as J.C. Flippen)), James Westerfield (Cal Garth), Barbara Loden (Betty Jackson), Frank Overton (Walter Clark), Malcolm Atterbury (Sy Moore), Big Jeff Bess (Joe John Garth (uncredited)), Bruce Dern (Jack Roper (uncredited)), John Dudley (Todd (uncredited)), Judy Harris (Barbara Baldwin (uncredited)), Robert Earl Jones (Sam Johnson (uncredited)), Mark Menson (Winters (uncredited)), Patricia Perry (Mattie (uncredited)), Alfred E. Smith (Thompson (uncredited)), Jim Steakley (Mayor Tom Maynard (uncredited)) |
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. 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 an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
