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* SweaterGirl: Carol and Betty both have their moments.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Carol's children, Barbara Anne and Jim Jr.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Carol's children, Barbara Anne and Jim Jr. are very sweet little kids.
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* GoodCopBadCop: Not cops, but Sy Moore and R.J. Bailey serve as this in dealing with Chuck (although it's left vague if it's deliberate). Moore arrives, speaking civility and simply making requests, but warns that he and his companions deliberately excluded Bailey from the meeting because he'll be rougher, and when his overture doesn't work Bailey does show up, willing to rough up and outright threaten Chuck.
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* GoodCopBadCop: Not cops, but Sy Moore and R.J. Bailey serve as this in dealing with Chuck and trying to keep him from hiring African=American laborers for the dam (although it's left vague if it's deliberate). the two are actually working together). Moore arrives, speaking civility and simply arrives at Chuck's house making polite requests, but warns that he and his companions deliberately excluded Bailey from the meeting because he'll be rougher, and when his overture doesn't work Bailey does show up, willing to rough up and outright threaten Chuck.Chuck to keep him from offering his mistreated and underpaid black laborers the opportunity of a better job.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: R.J. Bailey declares that one of his workers, Ben took the offer to work for the TVA for greater pay, and Bailey threatened Ben into coming back to work for him and then beat him so viciously that he couldn't work for two days (making Bailey hire another man). He declares that this means Chuck owes him the $4 he had to pay for Ben's replacement. Chuck understandably doesn't see it that way. After Bailey beats up Chuck and takes the money though, it's implied that he was merely trying to intimidate Chuck and make a point, as he uses that money to buy some moonshine to send up to the battered Chuck with a smug chuckle.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: R.J. Bailey declares that one of his workers, Ben took the offer to work for the TVA for greater pay, and Bailey threatened Ben into coming back to work for him and then beat him so viciously that he couldn't work for two days (making Bailey hire another man). He declares that this means Chuck owes him the $4 he had to pay for Ben's replacement. Chuck understandably doesn't see it that way. After Bailey beats up Chuck and takes the money though, it's implied that he was merely trying to intimidate Chuck out of hiring black workers and make a point, doesn't care about the matter, as he uses that money to buy some moonshine to send up to the battered Chuck with a smug chuckle.
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* KarmaHoudini: Bailey is ultimately forced to stop his beatdown of Chuck but isn't humilaiated, arrested or really thwarted in any way and just leaves casually.
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* KarmaHoudini: Racist thug Bailey is ultimately forced to stop his beatdown of Chuck but isn't humilaiated, humiliated, arrested or really thwarted in any way and just leaves casually.
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* OddFriendship: Walter and Chuck, despite their rivalry for Cora. Walter is unable to lure Chuck into a trap for Bailey, and warns him about the man, twice, while also getting drunk with him once.
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* OddFriendship: Walter and Chuck, despite their rivalry for Cora.Cora's affections. Walter is unable to lure Chuck into a trap for Bailey, and warns him about the man, twice, while also getting drunk with him once.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover (Clift) has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]] and complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennessee River valley, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband, the town's founder, is buried there.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover (Clift) has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]] and complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennessee River valley, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband, the town's founder, is buried there.
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* SexySpectacles: Betty, who runs the local TVA office, has some.
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''Wild River'' is a 1960 film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, starring Creator/MontgomeryClift. Creator/BruceDern has a cameo, in his film debut.
It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover (Clift) has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]] and complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennessee River valley, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband, the town's founder, is buried there.
While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol (Lee Remick). Additionally, Chuck soon discovers he has a more serious opponent than Ella. All the local white racists object to Chuck's plan to hire black laborers and pay them fair wages to clear land for the dam. The racists, besides objecting on grounds of simple racism, fear losing cheap black labor for their own businesses. Head racist goon R.J. Bailey (Creator/AlbertSalmi) is soon prepared to take violent action against Chuck.
The movies plot and characters are adapted from two 1950's novels dealing with the Tennessee Valley Authority's dams and families evicted by them: ''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie.
It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover (Clift) has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]] and complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennessee River valley, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband, the town's founder, is buried there.
While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol (Lee Remick). Additionally, Chuck soon discovers he has a more serious opponent than Ella. All the local white racists object to Chuck's plan to hire black laborers and pay them fair wages to clear land for the dam. The racists, besides objecting on grounds of simple racism, fear losing cheap black labor for their own businesses. Head racist goon R.J. Bailey (Creator/AlbertSalmi) is soon prepared to take violent action against Chuck.
The movies plot and characters are adapted from two 1950's novels dealing with the Tennessee Valley Authority's dams and families evicted by them: ''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie.
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''Wild River'' is a 1960 film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, starring Creator/MontgomeryClift.Creator/MontgomeryClift, Creator/LeeRemick, and Jo Van Fleet. Creator/BruceDern has a cameo, in his film debut.
It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover (Clift) has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]] and complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennessee River valley, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth(Jo Van (Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband, the town's founder, is buried there.
While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol(Lee Remick).(Remick). Additionally, Chuck soon discovers he has a more serious opponent than Ella. All the local white racists object to Chuck's plan to hire black laborers and pay them fair wages to clear land for the dam. The racists, besides objecting on grounds of simple racism, fear losing cheap black labor for their own businesses. Head racist goon R.J. Bailey (Creator/AlbertSalmi) is soon prepared to take violent action against Chuck.
Themovies movie's plot and characters are were adapted from two 1950's different 1950s novels dealing with the Tennessee Valley Authority's dams and the families evicted by them: ''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie.
It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover (Clift) has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]] and complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennessee River valley, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth
While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol
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* WouldHitAGirl: RJ Bailey punches Carol almost hard enough to knock her unconscious, and ends up puncheon one of his own cronies for protesting to this.
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* WouldHitAGirl: RJ Bailey punches Carol almost hard enough to knock her unconscious, and ends up puncheon punching one of his own cronies for protesting to this.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Bailey says that he'll go out to the island himself and force Ella off if Chuck backs down about hiring black workers, which Chuck refuses to do.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Knowing of the obstacle that she's posing to the project, Bailey says that he'll go out to the island himself and force Ella off if Chuck backs down about hiring black workers, workers for the dam, which Chuck refuses to do.
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''Wild River'' is a 1960 film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, starring Creator/MontgomeryClift.
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''Wild River'' is a 1960 film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, starring Creator/MontgomeryClift.
Creator/MontgomeryClift. Creator/BruceDern has a cameo, in his film debut.
The movies plot and characters are adapted from two 1950's novels dealing with the Tennessee Valley Authority's dams and families evicted by them: ''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Sy Moore is introduced being very polite towards Chuck and offering to negotiate with him to meet some terms before drawing the line at paying blacks and whites the same wages, while RJ Bailey is introduced pumping gas for Chuck and Carol, saying that they make a nice looking couple and thanking Carol for asking about his wife even as his tone and language gets ambiguously threatening. Later, when he visits Chuck to beat him up, he makes a point to offer him a cigar and chat with him for a while before delivering his ultimatum.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Sy Moore is introduced being very polite towards Chuck and offering to negotiate with him to meet some terms before drawing the line at paying blacks and whites the same wages, while RJ Bailey is introduced pumping gas for Chuck and Carol, saying that they make a nice looking couple and thanking Carol for asking about his wife even as his tone and language gets ambiguously threatening. Later, when he visits Chuck to beat him up, he makes a point to offer him a cigar and chat with him for a while before delivering his racist ultimatum.
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* GoodCopBadCop: Not cops, but Sy Moore and R.J. Bailey serve as this in dealing with Chuck (although it's left vague if it's deliberate). Moore arrives, speaking civility and simply making requests, but warns that they've deliberately excluded Bailey because he'll be rougher, and when his overture doesn't work Bailey does show up, willing to rough up and outright threaten Chuck.
* HairTriggerTemper: Although friendlier than most examples, Joe John Garth is described as "unpredictable." by his brother Hamilton.
* HairTriggerTemper: Although friendlier than most examples, Joe John Garth is described as "unpredictable." by his brother Hamilton.
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* GoodCopBadCop: Not cops, but Sy Moore and R.J. Bailey serve as this in dealing with Chuck (although it's left vague if it's deliberate). Moore arrives, speaking civility and simply making requests, but warns that they've he and his companions deliberately excluded Bailey from the meeting because he'll be rougher, and when his overture doesn't work Bailey does show up, willing to rough up and outright threaten Chuck.
* HairTriggerTemper: Although friendlier than most examples, Joe John Garth is described as "unpredictable." by his brotherHamilton.Hamilton and throws Chuck in the river over a perceived insult to his mother.
* HairTriggerTemper: Although friendlier than most examples, Joe John Garth is described as "unpredictable." by his brother
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* InsaneTrollLogic: R.J. Bailey declares that one of his workers, Ben took the offer to work for the TVA for greater pay, and Bailey threatened Ben into coming back to work for him and then beat him so viciously that he couldn't work for two days (making Bailey trie another man). He declares that this means Chuck owes him the $4 he had to pay for Ben's replacement. Chuck understandably doesn't see it that way. After Bailey beats up Chuck and takes the money though, it's implied that he was merely trying to intimidate Chuck and make a point, as he uses that money to buy some moonshine to send up to the battered Chuck with a smug chuckle.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: R.J. Bailey declares that one of his workers, Ben took the offer to work for the TVA for greater pay, and Bailey threatened Ben into coming back to work for him and then beat him so viciously that he couldn't work for two days (making Bailey trie hire another man). He declares that this means Chuck owes him the $4 he had to pay for Ben's replacement. Chuck understandably doesn't see it that way. After Bailey beats up Chuck and takes the money though, it's implied that he was merely trying to intimidate Chuck and make a point, as he uses that money to buy some moonshine to send up to the battered Chuck with a smug chuckle.
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* LazyBum: Hamilton and Cal Garth (and possibly Joe John, although he's absent during that conversation) are old enough to be great-uncles but openly admit that they don't do anything work on the Garth farm and just mildly supervise the black farmhands, and have been that way since childhood. Knowing that the relocation would force them to get jobs causes them to resist for a while.
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* LazyBum: Hamilton and Cal Garth (and possibly Joe John, although he's absent during that conversation) are old enough to be great-uncles but openly admit that they don't do anything any work on the Garth farm and just mildly supervise the black farmhands, and have been that way since childhood. Knowing that the relocation would force them to get jobs causes them to resist for a while.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The local Sheriff zigzags this. He's mildly helpful and supportive to the TVA for most of the film, while also displaying some sympathy for Ella, but [[BitchInSheepsClothing watches Bailey and his men wreck Chuck;s house, endangering him and Carol's lives for a while before intervening]], although his (mild) intervention does potentially stop things from getting worse.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The local Sheriff zigzags this. He's mildly helpful and supportive to the TVA for most of the film, while also displaying some sympathy for Ella, but [[BitchInSheepsClothing watches Bailey and his men wreck Chuck;s Chuck's house, endangering him and Carol's lives for a while before intervening]], although his (mild) intervention does potentially stop things from getting worse.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Carol admits that she doesn't; actually love Walter Clark before he ever even appears onscreen.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Carol admits that she doesn't; doesn't actually love Walter Clark before he ever even appears onscreen.
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* BadBoss: Bailey won't let any of his black workers quit and will viciously beat them for daring to try.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Carol's children, Barbara Anne and Jim Jr.
* BadassBoast: When Chuck expresses surprise that Bailey is alone when he came to threaten him.
--> '''Bailey:''' I didn't figure I needed anyone else.
* CigarChomper: R.J. Bailey is puffing away on a cigar in his first scene and brings some up to Chuck's hotel room when he goes to threaten him.
--> '''Bailey:''' I didn't figure I needed anyone else.
* CigarChomper: R.J. Bailey is puffing away on a cigar in his first scene and brings some up to Chuck's hotel room when he goes to threaten him.
* DeathSeeker: Hinted at with Ella, who actually tries to order some of the others off the island but wants to stay herself even though the floodwaters will kill her.
* TheDutifulSon: While Joe John Garth does ultimately leave the island while Ella stays put, he is the only one of her sons not to take part in trying to have her declared incompetent and throws Chuck in the river for insinuating Ella is crazy.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Betty and the other TVA officers expected someone older and after Chuck passes out drunk in front of Ella she observes that he'd looked taller before.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sy Moore is introduced being very polite towards Chuck and offering to negotiate with him to meet some terms before drawing the line at paying blacks and whites the same wages, while RJ Bailey is introduced pumping gas for Chuck and Carol, saying that they make a nice looking couple and thanking Carol for asking about his wife even as his tone and language gets ambiguously threatening. Later, when he visits Chuck to beat him up, he makes a point to offer him a cigar and chat with him for a while before delivering his ultimatum.
* FourthDateMarriage: Chuck and Carol are talking about her future, and the nature of love within an hour of meeting and kissing, and discussing the possibilities of a future together within 48 hours.
* GoodCopBadCop: Not cops, but Sy Moore and R.J. Bailey serve as this in dealing with Chuck (although it's left vague if it's deliberate). Moore arrives, speaking civility and simply making requests, but warns that they've deliberately excluded Bailey because he'll be rougher, and when his overture doesn't work Bailey does show up, willing to rough up and outright threaten Chuck.
* HairTriggerTemper: Although friendlier than most examples, Joe John Garth is described as "unpredictable." by his brother Hamilton.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Carol, when [[MaleGaze she's wearing jeans in front of Chuck]] in one scene, with him actually asking her not to walk around in front of him.
* TheDutifulSon: While Joe John Garth does ultimately leave the island while Ella stays put, he is the only one of her sons not to take part in trying to have her declared incompetent and throws Chuck in the river for insinuating Ella is crazy.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Betty and the other TVA officers expected someone older and after Chuck passes out drunk in front of Ella she observes that he'd looked taller before.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Sy Moore is introduced being very polite towards Chuck and offering to negotiate with him to meet some terms before drawing the line at paying blacks and whites the same wages, while RJ Bailey is introduced pumping gas for Chuck and Carol, saying that they make a nice looking couple and thanking Carol for asking about his wife even as his tone and language gets ambiguously threatening. Later, when he visits Chuck to beat him up, he makes a point to offer him a cigar and chat with him for a while before delivering his ultimatum.
* FourthDateMarriage: Chuck and Carol are talking about her future, and the nature of love within an hour of meeting and kissing, and discussing the possibilities of a future together within 48 hours.
* GoodCopBadCop: Not cops, but Sy Moore and R.J. Bailey serve as this in dealing with Chuck (although it's left vague if it's deliberate). Moore arrives, speaking civility and simply making requests, but warns that they've deliberately excluded Bailey because he'll be rougher, and when his overture doesn't work Bailey does show up, willing to rough up and outright threaten Chuck.
* HairTriggerTemper: Although friendlier than most examples, Joe John Garth is described as "unpredictable." by his brother Hamilton.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Carol, when [[MaleGaze she's wearing jeans in front of Chuck]] in one scene, with him actually asking her not to walk around in front of him.
* InsaneTrollLogic: R.J. Bailey declares that one of his workers, Ben took the offer to work for the TVA for greater pay, and Bailey threatened Ben into coming back to work for him and then beat him so viciously that he couldn't work for two days (making Bailey trie another man). He declares that this means Chuck owes him the $4 he had to pay for Ben's replacement. Chuck understandably doesn't see it that way. After Bailey beats up Chuck and takes the money though, it's implied that he was merely trying to intimidate Chuck and make a point, as he uses that money to buy some moonshine to send up to the battered Chuck with a smug chuckle.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Walter is implied to be one, which might contribute to how he ultimately steps aside.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Walter is implied to be one, which might contribute to how he ultimately steps aside.
* KarmaHoudini: Bailey is ultimately forced to stop his beatdown of Chuck but isn't humilaiated, arrested or really thwarted in any way and just leaves casually.
* LazyBum: Hamilton and Cal Garth (and possibly Joe John, although he's absent during that conversation) are old enough to be great-uncles but openly admit that they don't do anything work on the Garth farm and just mildly supervise the black farmhands, and have been that way since childhood. Knowing that the relocation would force them to get jobs causes them to resist for a while.
* LazyBum: Hamilton and Cal Garth (and possibly Joe John, although he's absent during that conversation) are old enough to be great-uncles but openly admit that they don't do anything work on the Garth farm and just mildly supervise the black farmhands, and have been that way since childhood. Knowing that the relocation would force them to get jobs causes them to resist for a while.
* LiquidCourage: Chuck goes over and gives a blunt, heartfelt speech to Ella after drinking a jar of moonshine, while on the verge of passing out.
* NonActionGuy: Chuck does not do well any time he attempts to fight Bailey, never even managing to land a punch as far as we can tell.
* OddFriendship: Walter and Chuck, despite their rivalry for Cora. Walter is unable to lure Chuck into a trap for Bailey, and warns him about the man, twice, while also getting drunk with him once.
* OddFriendship: Walter and Chuck, despite their rivalry for Cora. Walter is unable to lure Chuck into a trap for Bailey, and warns him about the man, twice, while also getting drunk with him once.
* OpportunisticBastard: Cal and Hamilton Garth don't want to leave the island, but once it becomes clear that there's no other choice, they try to have Ella declared legally incompetent to speed things up, and ensure that they'll get paid for the land instead of her.
* PerpetualSmiler: Joe John only loses his smile at the end, during Ella's funeral.
* PoliceAreUseless: The local Sheriff zigzags this. He's mildly helpful and supportive to the TVA for most of the film, while also displaying some sympathy for Ella, but [[BitchInSheepsClothing watches Bailey and his men wreck Chuck;s house, endangering him and Carol's lives for a while before intervening]], although his (mild) intervention does potentially stop things from getting worse.
* PragmaticVillainy: Bailey says that he'll go out to the island himself and force Ella off if Chuck backs down about hiring black workers, which Chuck refuses to do.
* PerpetualSmiler: Joe John only loses his smile at the end, during Ella's funeral.
* PoliceAreUseless: The local Sheriff zigzags this. He's mildly helpful and supportive to the TVA for most of the film, while also displaying some sympathy for Ella, but [[BitchInSheepsClothing watches Bailey and his men wreck Chuck;s house, endangering him and Carol's lives for a while before intervening]], although his (mild) intervention does potentially stop things from getting worse.
* PragmaticVillainy: Bailey says that he'll go out to the island himself and force Ella off if Chuck backs down about hiring black workers, which Chuck refuses to do.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The local Mayor provides some aide and advice to Chuck, and doesn't seem personally opposed to hiring black hands, although he warns him that it might cause trouble with the local bigots.
* RomanticFalseLead: Carol admits that she doesn't; actually love Walter Clark before he ever even appears onscreen.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Even before Chuck shows up, some of Ella's farmhands have been quitting and leaving due to fear of being flooded out.
* SexySpectacles: Betty, who runs the local TVA office, has some.
* SharpDressedMan: Chuck always has a good suit on.
* SlaveToPR: Chuck's bosses want Ella to give up her land voluntarily to avoid giving opponents of the project ammunition against them [[DownplayedTrope although as the deadline gets closer they ultimately decide to have her moved by force anyway]].
* SexySpectacles: Betty, who runs the local TVA office, has some.
* SharpDressedMan: Chuck always has a good suit on.
* SlaveToPR: Chuck's bosses want Ella to give up her land voluntarily to avoid giving opponents of the project ammunition against them [[DownplayedTrope although as the deadline gets closer they ultimately decide to have her moved by force anyway]].
* StoutStrength: Joe John Garth is not a thin man, but after Chuck calls his mother senile, is capable of picking him up head over heels, marching him several feet and throwing him in the river.
* SweaterGirl: Carol and Betty both have their moments.
* SweaterGirl: Carol and Betty both have their moments.
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* WorthyOpponent: Chuck feels this way about Ella. He tells her about how he respects her fight for dignity, and he refuses to cooperate with a plot by her sons to have her declared incompetent.
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* TragicDropout: Carol spent a year at college after her husband died, but her heart wasn't in it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never revealed how Carol's husband Jim died, or what exactly happened to her parents.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Ella actually admires the flooding of the valley to an extent, and feels tampering with it is unnatural.
* WorthyOpponent: Chuck feels this way about Ella. He tells her about how he respects her fight for dignity, and he refuses to cooperate with a plot by her sons to have her declaredincompetent.incompetent.
* WouldHitAGirl: RJ Bailey punches Carol almost hard enough to knock her unconscious, and ends up puncheon one of his own cronies for protesting to this.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never revealed how Carol's husband Jim died, or what exactly happened to her parents.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Ella actually admires the flooding of the valley to an extent, and feels tampering with it is unnatural.
* WorthyOpponent: Chuck feels this way about Ella. He tells her about how he respects her fight for dignity, and he refuses to cooperate with a plot by her sons to have her declared
* WouldHitAGirl: RJ Bailey punches Carol almost hard enough to knock her unconscious, and ends up puncheon one of his own cronies for protesting to this.
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While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol (Lee Remick). Additionally, Chuck soon discovers he has a more serious opponent than Ella. All the local white racists object to Chuck's plan to hire black laborers and pay them fair wages to clear land for the dam. The racists, besides objecting on grounds of simple racism, fear losing cheap black labor for their own businesses. Head racist goon R.J. Bailey (Albert Salmi) is soon prepared to take violent action against Chuck.
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While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol (Lee Remick). Additionally, Chuck soon discovers he has a more serious opponent than Ella. All the local white racists object to Chuck's plan to hire black laborers and pay them fair wages to clear land for the dam. The racists, besides objecting on grounds of simple racism, fear losing cheap black labor for their own businesses. Head racist goon R.J. Bailey (Albert Salmi) (Creator/AlbertSalmi) is soon prepared to take violent action against Chuck.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover (Clift) has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee River valley by Garthville, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband, the town's founder, is buried there.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover (Clift) has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to Authority]] and complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee Tennessee River valley by Garthville, valley, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband, the town's founder, is buried there.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee River valley by Garthville, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband, the town's founder, is buried there.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover (Clift) has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee River valley by Garthville, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband, the town's founder, is buried there.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee River valley by Garthville, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land before it's flooded and relocate. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband (and founder of the town) is buried there.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee River valley by Garthville, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land and relocate before it's flooded and relocate.flooded. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband (and founder of husband, the town) town's founder, is buried there.
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While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol (Lee Remick). Additionally, Chuck soon discovers he has a more serious opponent than Ella. All the local white racists object to Chuck's plan to hire black laborers and pay them fair wages to clear land for the dam. The racists, besides objecting on grounds of simple racism, fear losing cheap black labor for their own businesses. Head racist goon R.J. Bailey is soon prepared to take violent action against Chuck.
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While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol (Lee Remick). Additionally, Chuck soon discovers he has a more serious opponent than Ella. All the local white racists object to Chuck's plan to hire black laborers and pay them fair wages to clear land for the dam. The racists, besides objecting on grounds of simple racism, fear losing cheap black labor for their own businesses. Head racist goon R.J. Bailey (Albert Salmi) is soon prepared to take violent action against Chuck.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee River valley by Garthville, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land before it's flooded and relocate. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband (and founder of the town) is buried there.
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It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee River valley by Garthville, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land before it's flooded and relocate. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband (and founder of the town) is buried there.
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* {{Appalachia}}: Namely Eastern Tennessee, which at that time was mired in profound poverty that the TVA helped alleviate.
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AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Twice from Carol, once when they first revisit her old home, then towards the end of the film when she begs Chuck to marry her and take her away.
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CuteButCacophonic: Jimmy's enthusiastic but awful singing in the bath earns him a smack from his big sister.
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DeathByDespair: Ella is nearly catatonic with despair after the sheriff finally removes her from her home and deposits her in a cottage in town. In the next scene Carol tells Chuck that she died.
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HonorBeforeReason: Ella's insistence on staying on her farm could be thought of as this. A more obvious example comes when Sam, Ella's one remaining tenant farmer, is ''still plowing the land'' just days before it's going to go underwater forever. Chuck is astonished to see this.
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IrisOut: The very last shot of the movie is an aerial shot of the new lake and dam, with the iris centering in on the dam itself.
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LetThePastBurn: Not wrathful or angry like this trope usually plays out. But it's still symbolic when the final cleanup before the dam gates are closed involves burning down the Garth farmhouse.
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MaliciousMisnaming: Bailey the thug calls Chuck Glover "Glower".
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TheNeedsOfTheMany: Not spelled out in dialogue but an obvious theme of the film. The TVA will be a boon to the whole region, creating jobs, bringing electricity (one of the farmhands gapes with delight at the electric light in his cottage), and saving lives and property by ending the uncontrolled flooding of the river. But for this to happen, people like Ella Garth have to give up their river land.
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OldRetainer: Sam, Ella Garth's last tenant farmer, who stays with her after the others have gone and even after her family's turned against her.
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RailroadPlot: A rare example of a work in which the person/entity building the "railroad" is sympathetic and well-intentioned. The TVA will do a world of good for Appalachia and Chuck Glover doesn't want to hurt anybody. Still, though, Ella Garth and her island stand in the way of his great project.
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RomancingTheWidow: Chuck falls in love with Carol, who is alone with her two small children after the death of her husband three years before.
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RomanticRain: Pouring rain in the scene where Chuck first touches Carol and she makes her first Anguished Declaration of Love.
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StockFootage: From a catastrophic flood of the Tennessee River that pre-dated the dam.
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TogetherInDeath: Ella shows Chuck the grave where her husband's been for decades, and the plot that's waiting for her next to him. The final scene has Ella being buried next to her husband, as the family graveyard is the only part of the old island that's still above water.
*WorthyOpponentWorthyOpponent: Chuck feels this way about Ella. He tells her about how he respects her fight for dignity, and he refuses to cooperate with a plot by her sons to have her declared incompetent.
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* ConversationCut: Chuck tells the mayor that he plans to pay the local black population fair wages for working on the dam--$5 a day. The mayor, who knows how much local racist businessmen rely on a pool of cheap black labor, says "I predict your next visit will be from a Mr. Moore." Cut immediately to the next scene in which a local businessman is introducing himself as Sy Moore.
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''Wild River'' is a 1960 film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, starring Creator/MontgomeryClift.
It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee River valley by Garthville, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land before it's flooded and relocate. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband (and founder of the town) is buried there.
While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol (Lee Remick). Additionally, Chuck soon discovers he has a more serious opponent than Ella. All the local white racists object to Chuck's plan to hire black laborers and pay them fair wages to clear land for the dam. The racists, besides objecting on grounds of simple racism, fear losing cheap black labor for their own businesses. Head racist goon R.J. Bailey is soon prepared to take violent action against Chuck.
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* RomancingTheWidow
It is sometime in the mid-1930s. Chuck Glover has arrived in Garthville, Tennessee, to become the new supervisor of the local office of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority Tennessee Valley Authority]]. Chuck is in Garthville to complete final preparations for the activation of a hydroelectric dam that will flood the Tennesee River valley by Garthville, creating a new lake. This requires landowners along the river to sell their land before it's flooded and relocate. Chuck's problem is that one family, the Garths, refuse to sell Garth Island in the middle of the river. Specifically, 80-year-old family matriarch Ella Garth refuses to sell it, as she's lived there all her adult life and her husband (and founder of the town) is buried there.
While Chuck is trying to get Ella to cooperate and move off the island before the impending floodwaters wipe most of it off the map, he is also romancing her lovely widowed granddaughter, Carol (Lee Remick). Additionally, Chuck soon discovers he has a more serious opponent than Ella. All the local white racists object to Chuck's plan to hire black laborers and pay them fair wages to clear land for the dam. The racists, besides objecting on grounds of simple racism, fear losing cheap black labor for their own businesses. Head racist goon R.J. Bailey is soon prepared to take violent action against Chuck.
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* RomancingTheWidow
