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Wild River is a 1960 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet.It was filmed in the Tennessee Valley, and was adapted by Paul Osborn from two novels: Borden Deal's Dunbar's Cove and William Bradford Huie's Mud on the Stars, drawing for plot from Deal's story of a battle of wills between the nascent Tennessee Valley Authority and ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.
The River is a 1984 American drama film directed by Mark Rydell, written by Robert Dillon and Julian Barry, and starring Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, and Scott Glenn.The film tells the story of a struggling farm family in a Tennessee river valley trying to keep its farm from going under in the face of bank foreclosures and floods.
Many films get made in Tennessee, with the Volunteer State ranking fifth nationally for employment in motion picture and video production and $424 million in annual gross state product produced by ...
The River later served as the score for the 1983 TV movie The Day After. [4] The two films were sponsored by the U.S. government and specifically the Resettlement Administration (RA) to raise awareness about the New Deal. The RA was folded into the Farm Security Administration in 1937, so The River was officially an FSA production.
Nonetheless, a purported "world premiere" was held at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville, on September 10, 1987, in front of about 1,500 spectators. It was the sixth movie premiere held at the venue. [20] [21] It was preceded by a gala at the historic Lord Lindsey building, both benefiting the renovation of downtown Knoxville. [10]
The Vols moved to No. 5 in the AP Top 25 after an easy win over previously No. 15 Oklahoma on Saturday night. Oklahoma’s offense struggled against Tennessee’s defense as the game was a ...
Watts Bar Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Meigs and Rhea counties in Tennessee, United States.The dam is one of nine dams on the main Tennessee River channel operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to provide flood control and electricity and to help create a continuous navigable channel along the entire length of the river.