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.
Cast
Crew
Elia Kazan
Director, Producer
Paul Osborn
Screenplay
Borden Deal
Novel
William Bradford Huie
Novel
William Reynolds
Editor
Ellsworth Fredericks
Director of Photography
Leonard Doss
Colorist
Charles H. Maguire
Assistant Director
Anna Hill Johnstone
Costume Design
Helen Turpin
Hairstylist
Ben Nye
Makeup Artist
Eugene Grossman
Sound
Dick Vorisek
Sound
Kenyon Hopkins
Music
Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration
Joseph Kish
Set Decoration
Don B. Greenwood
Property Master
Haskell Wexler
Additional Photography
Clyde Taylor
Gaffer
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
Herman A. Blumenthal
Art Direction
