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WILD RIVER CONTINUED FINALLY CONVINCED BY THE U. S. AGENT (MONTGOMERY CLIFT) THAT THE GOVERNMENT PROJECT IS A COMMUNITY SAFEGUARD, THE GRAND-DAUGHTER AND WIDOWED MOTHER OF TWO CHILDREN (LEE REMICK) CONCEDES SHE LOVES HIM. A MUTUAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT CONCLUDES IN MARRIAGE. NATURE’S VIOLENCE VS. HUMAN PASSIONS Filming of “Wild River” was itself a dramatic affair. Producer-director Elia Kazan has stressed realism in characterizations of not only the three principals, but in the men and women, and chil- dren, who people the area wherein the story took place. Moreover, he spared no exploratory means to give authenticity to the backgrounds, and the violences of nature and human passions that made the early days of construction of the dams hectic for TV A officials and the people who had been born and lived in the area all their lives. Also, to give authoritative realism to every in- cident the performers personally carried out each hazardous incident in which their respective roles involved them. The fights against enraged natives and the rages of nature are devoid of synthetic reproduction. There were no “stand-ins” or “stunt” experts from Hollywood. Out of a fight in which Montgomery Clift was being beaten by a former suitor, Lee Remick stops the fistic duel by biting the latter’s ears, but emerges with bloody hands. In several other sequences in which Clift combats the destructive elements, he suffered injury in one and narrowly escaped serious injury in two others. Elia Kazan, who launched his major film direc- torial career with this company’s “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn”, produced 95% of “Wild River” in the exact locales in the screenplay. Between early October and late December, he and his company worked at three outdoor “locations” in the Tennes* Continued on page 68 troubles. When the showdown came between the two men (Clift and A1 Salami) the widow, seeing that the TVA agent was sustaining a systematic beating in the rain and mud, flung herself into the conflict. Finding her little fists ineffectual, she bit her self-presumed former sweetheart’s ear, leaving no doubt as to whom she had lost her heart. The law of self-preservation and a persecution complex took hold of many a Garthsville man and woman when the TVA agent stepped into their midst. Most personally resentful of his stay was a young native who took for granted that the young widow and he would soon marry. But, the 23-year-old mother fell in love with the agent... and added to the latter’s 66