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.
Genre: Drama, History, Romance Actors: Albert Salmi, Barbara Loden, Bruce Dern, Frank Overton, James Westerfield, Jay C. Flippen, Jo Van Fleet, Lee Remick, Malcolm Atterbury, Montgomery Clift, Robert Earl Jones Directors: Elia Kazan
