On Fri, 6 May 1994 03:19:02 -0400 Mary C. Kalfatovic said: >Kazan's WILD RIVER (1960) as a fine water oriented movie. Montgomery >Clift (looking a bit worse for wear) plays a TVA agent who must make a >fiesty old woman (Jo Van Fleet) accept that she has no choice but to leave >her farm because it is going to be flooded by the just completed dam >upriver. The movie does a good job of showing both sides of an argument. >Something that benefits the many can be harmful to the few. Both Clift and >Van Fleet are sympathetic characters. Sadly, I don't think WILD RIVER is >on video and I have never seen it on TV since many of the color prints of >the movie have faded to a purplish tone. WILD RIVER flopped in the U.S. ...and, additionally, the original was in 'Scope so the panned/scanned TV prints never really did it justice. Leonard Maltin confirms what Mary suggested: It does not appear to be available on videocassette. P.S. It also features a touching romance between Clift's character and that of Lee Remick--not long after her debut in A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957). (WILD RIVER was released in '60.) ---------- Percentage of the papers presented to the Organization of American Historians in 1993 whose subject is a historical figure: 5 ---------- | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L Coordinator | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |