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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: BlackAndWhiteMorality doesn't always apply in a RailroadPlot. There can be a genuine need for the advancing project, and people who have a genuine reason to resist it, and not every ending to such a story is a happy one.
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** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the family's eldest son gets a job working on the dam, with his father seeing the construction up close during a failed attempt to make the young man (who feels a sense of pride and investment in the dam) come home.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the family trying to build an earth dam of its own to block the rushing water and keep their land.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' Chuck's counterpart helps plow the family's land as a way of breaking tension.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the [=TVA=] tries to find a section of land as similar to the one the family is being forced off of as possible for them to live on.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the family trying to build an earth dam of its own to block the rushing water and keep their land.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' Chuck's counterpart helps plow the family's land as a way of breaking tension.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the [=TVA=] tries to find a section of land as similar to the one the family is being forced off of as possible for them to live on.
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** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the Cove''
*** The family's eldest son gets a job working on the dam, with his father seeing the construction up close during a failed attempt to make the young man (who feels a sense of pride and investment in the dam) come home.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the *** The family trying to build an earth dam of its own to block the rushing water and keep their land.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' *** Chuck's counterpart helps plow the family's land as a way of breaking tension.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the *** The [=TVA=] tries to find a section of land as similar to the one the family is being forced off of as possible for them to live on.on.
** ''Mud on the Stars.''
*** Sam's loyalty to the Garths could have been better developed if the film had referenced an incident where the Garths' frightened off a lynch mob after one of their black workers for beating up a white farmer.
*** The Garths try to convince the government to build the dam a little lower to reduce the water flow and let their island survive.
*** The family's eldest son gets a job working on the dam, with his father seeing the construction up close during a failed attempt to make the young man (who feels a sense of pride and investment in the dam) come home.
** ''Mud on the Stars.''
*** Sam's loyalty to the Garths could have been better developed if the film had referenced an incident where the Garths' frightened off a lynch mob after one of their black workers for beating up a white farmer.
*** The Garths try to convince the government to build the dam a little lower to reduce the water flow and let their island survive.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Several interesting plot lines from the novel ''Dunbar's Cove'' aren't included in the film.
** The family's eldest son gets a job working on the dam, with his father seeing the construction up close during a failed attempt to make the young man (who feels a sense of pride and investment in the dam) come home.
** The family trying to build an earth dam of its own to block the rushing water and keep their land.
** Chuck's counterpart helps plow the family's land as a way of breaking tension.
** The [=TVA=] tries to find a section of land as similar to the one the family is being forced off of as possible for them to live on.
** The family's eldest son gets a job working on the dam, with his father seeing the construction up close during a failed attempt to make the young man (who feels a sense of pride and investment in the dam) come home.
** The family trying to build an earth dam of its own to block the rushing water and keep their land.
** Chuck's counterpart helps plow the family's land as a way of breaking tension.
** The [=TVA=] tries to find a section of land as similar to the one the family is being forced off of as possible for them to live on.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Several interesting plot lines from the novel ''Dunbar's Cove'' novels aren't included in the film.
**The In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the family's eldest son gets a job working on the dam, with his father seeing the construction up close during a failed attempt to make the young man (who feels a sense of pride and investment in the dam) come home.
**The In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the family trying to build an earth dam of its own to block the rushing water and keep their land.
** In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' Chuck's counterpart helps plow the family's land as a way of breaking tension.
**The In ''Dunbar's Cove,'' the [=TVA=] tries to find a section of land as similar to the one the family is being forced off of as possible for them to live on.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Various interesting scenes characters or plot lines from the two novels which could have been handled interestingly are cut out. Notably, In the novel ‘’Dunbar’s Cove’’, one of the family members gets a job building the dam itself and argues with the head of the family about this while talking about a feeling of purpose and pride in being part of that.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Various Several interesting scenes characters or plot lines from the two novels which could have been handled interestingly are cut out. Notably, In the novel ‘’Dunbar’s Cove’’, ''Dunbar's Cove'' aren't included in the film.
** The family's eldest son gets a job working on the dam, with his father seeing the construction up close during a failed attempt to make the young man (who feels a sense of pride and investment in the dam) come home.
** The family trying to build an earth dam of its own to block the rushing water and keep their land.
** Chuck's counterpart helps plow the family's land as a way of breaking tension.
** The [=TVA=] tries to find a section of land as similar to the oneof the family members gets a job building the dam itself and argues with the head of the family about this while talking about a feeling of purpose and pride in is being part forced off of that.as possible for them to live on.
** The family's eldest son gets a job working on the dam, with his father seeing the construction up close during a failed attempt to make the young man (who feels a sense of pride and investment in the dam) come home.
** The family trying to build an earth dam of its own to block the rushing water and keep their land.
** Chuck's counterpart helps plow the family's land as a way of breaking tension.
** The [=TVA=] tries to find a section of land as similar to the one
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Joe John Garth gets some characterization as the most loyal of Ella's sons due to throwing Chuck into the river for insulting his mother (all with a smile on his face) and not taking part in trying to have her declared incompetent, but he has far less screen time than either of his brothers
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Joe John Garth gets some characterization as the most loyal of Ella's sons due to throwing Chuck into the river for insulting his mother (all with a smile on his face) and not taking part in trying to have her declared incompetent, but he has far less screen time than either of his brothersbrothers.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Various interesting scenes characters or plot lines from the two novels which could have been handled interestingly are cut out. Notably, In the novel ‘’Dunbar’s Cove’’, one of the family members gets a job building the dam itself and argues with the head of the family about this while talking about a feeling of purpose and pride in being part of that.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Various interesting scenes characters or plot lines from the two novels which could have been handled interestingly are cut out. Notably, In the novel ‘’Dunbar’s Cove’’, one of the family members gets a job building the dam itself and argues with the head of the family about this while talking about a feeling of purpose and pride in being part of that.
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* RomanticPlotTumor: The relationship between Sam and Carol is seen by some as unnecessary and diverting attention away form Sam's WorthyOpponent dynamics with Ella.
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* RomanticPlotTumor: The relationship between Sam Chuck and Carol is seen by some as unnecessary and diverting attention away form Sam's from Chuck's WorthyOpponent dynamics with Ella.
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* HilariousInHindsight: ''Wild River'' is a very rare example of a film that was adapted from two independent but similarly themed books by two separate authors (''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie) and has a major focus on water. One of the only other movies to do this, the much more famous ''Film/TheToweringInferno'' (adapted from ''The Tower'' by Richard Martin Stern, and ''the Glas Inferno'' by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson) has a major focus on fire.
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* HilariousInHindsight: ''Wild River'' is a very rare example of a film that was adapted from two independent but similarly themed books by two separate authors (''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie) and has a major focus on water. One of the only other movies to do this, the much more famous ''Film/TheToweringInferno'' (adapted from ''The Tower'' by Richard Martin Stern, and ''the Glas Glass Inferno'' by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson) has a major focus on fire.
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* SignatureScene: Plenty of people remember the scene where Ella demonstrates her dissatisfaction with imminent domain by pretending to force her farmhand Sam (played by the father of Creator/JamesEarlJones) to sell his hunting dog for what seems like a fair price but doesn't take sentiment into account.
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* SignatureScene: Plenty of people remember the scene where Ella demonstrates her dissatisfaction with imminent eminent domain by pretending to force her farmhand Sam (played by the father of Creator/JamesEarlJones) to sell his hunting dog Blue for what seems like a fair price but doesn't take sentiment into account.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Does the sheriff let the mob harass Chuck due to sharing their racism and anger at Chuck's hiring black workers? Or rather, does he want to see Chuck roughed up due to dislike for the TVA (he does make a comment about being sympathetic with Ella earlier on) and just see the mob as a means to an end for that.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Does the sheriff let the mob harass attack Chuck and Carol due to sharing their racism and anger at Chuck's hiring black workers? Or rather, does he want to see Chuck roughed up due to dislike for the TVA (he does make a comment about being sympathetic with Ella earlier on) and just see the mob as a means to an end for that.that.
** On related note, did he stop the beating once Chuck was in real danger due to EvenEvilHasStandards, or out of PragmaticVillainy to avoid being caught up in the potentially career-ending scandal that would follow the murder of a government employee while he stood by.
** On related note, did he stop the beating once Chuck was in real danger due to EvenEvilHasStandards, or out of PragmaticVillainy to avoid being caught up in the potentially career-ending scandal that would follow the murder of a government employee while he stood by.
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* HilariousInHindsight: ''Wild River'' is a very rare example of a film that was adapted from two different, unrelated books by two separate authors (''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie) and has a major focus on water. One of the only other movies to do this, the much more famous ''Film/TheToweringInferno'' (adapted from ''The Tower'' by Richard Martin Stern, and ''the Glas Inferno'' by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson) has a major focus on fire.
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* HilariousInHindsight: ''Wild River'' is a very rare example of a film that was adapted from two different, unrelated independent but similarly themed books by two separate authors (''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie) and has a major focus on water. One of the only other movies to do this, the much more famous ''Film/TheToweringInferno'' (adapted from ''The Tower'' by Richard Martin Stern, and ''the Glas Inferno'' by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson) has a major focus on fire.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Does the sheriff let the mob harass Chuck due to sharing their racism and anger at Chuck's hiring black workers? Or rather, does he want to see Chuck roughed up due to dislike for the TVA (he does make a comment about being sympathetic with Ella earlier on) and just see the mob as a means to an end for that.
* HilariousInHindsight: ''Wild River'' is a very rare example of a film that was adapted from two different, unrelated books by two separate authors (''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie) and has a major focus on water. One of the only other movies to do this, the much more famous ''Film/TheToweringInferno'' (adapted from ''The Tower'' by Richard Martin Stern, and ''the Glas Inferno'' by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson) has a major focus on fire.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BruceDern appears in an uncredited role as TVA employee named Roper in the first film of his (sixty years long and counting) career.
* RomanticPlotTumor: The relationship between Sam and Carol is seen by some as unnecessary and diverting attention away form Sam's WorthyOpponent dynamics with Ella.
* SignatureScene: Plenty of people remember the scene where Ella demonstrates her dissatisfaction with imminent domain by pretending to force her farmhand Sam (played by the father of Creator/JamesEarlJones) to sell his hunting dog for what seems like a fair price but doesn't take sentiment into account.
--> '''Sam:''' Blue's not for sell.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: BlackAndWhiteMorality doesn't always apply in a RailroadPlot. There can be a genuine need for the advancing project, and people who have a genuine reason to resist it, and not every ending to such a story is a happy one.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Joe John Garth gets some characterization as the most loyal of Ella's sons due to throwing Chuck into the river for insulting his mother (all with a smile on his face) and not taking part in trying to have her declared incompetent, but he has far less screen time than either of his brothers
* HilariousInHindsight: ''Wild River'' is a very rare example of a film that was adapted from two different, unrelated books by two separate authors (''Dunbar's Cove'' by Borden Deal and ''Mud on the Stars'' by William Bradford Huie) and has a major focus on water. One of the only other movies to do this, the much more famous ''Film/TheToweringInferno'' (adapted from ''The Tower'' by Richard Martin Stern, and ''the Glas Inferno'' by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson) has a major focus on fire.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BruceDern appears in an uncredited role as TVA employee named Roper in the first film of his (sixty years long and counting) career.
* RomanticPlotTumor: The relationship between Sam and Carol is seen by some as unnecessary and diverting attention away form Sam's WorthyOpponent dynamics with Ella.
* SignatureScene: Plenty of people remember the scene where Ella demonstrates her dissatisfaction with imminent domain by pretending to force her farmhand Sam (played by the father of Creator/JamesEarlJones) to sell his hunting dog for what seems like a fair price but doesn't take sentiment into account.
--> '''Sam:''' Blue's not for sell.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: BlackAndWhiteMorality doesn't always apply in a RailroadPlot. There can be a genuine need for the advancing project, and people who have a genuine reason to resist it, and not every ending to such a story is a happy one.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Joe John Garth gets some characterization as the most loyal of Ella's sons due to throwing Chuck into the river for insulting his mother (all with a smile on his face) and not taking part in trying to have her declared incompetent, but he has far less screen time than either of his brothers
