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.
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> Elia Kazan (Director)
> Charles H. Maguire (Assistant Director)
> Ellsworth Fredericks (Director of Photography)
> Paul Osborn (Screenplay)
> William Bradford Huie (Novel)
> Borden Deal (Novel)