
A young Tennessee Valley Authority bureaucrat is sent to rural Tennessee to oversee dam construction. He meets resistance, especially from a farmer who opposes hiring black laborers. The plot centers on evicting an octogenarian from her river‑island home and his romance with her widowed granddaughter. The film has been preserved by the Academy Film Archive with The Film Foundation.
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Bruce Dern
Jack Roper

Albert Salmi
Hank Bailey

Montgomery Clift
Chuck Glover

Jo Van Fleet
Ella Garth

Jay C. Flippen
Hamilton Garth

Barbara Loden
Betty Jackson

Lee Remick
Carol Garth Baldwin

Frank Overton
Walter Clark

James Westerfield
Cal Garth

Robert Earl Jones
Sam Johnson (uncredited)

Malcolm Atterbury
Sy Moore
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