Wild River (1960)

Directed by Elia Kazan

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” says the poet Robert Frost — “that wants it down.” He was referring to an apparently pointless stone wall between his land and his neighbor’s land. But Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet), an eighty year old woman living on a black-soil island in the Tennessee River with her sons, her widowed granddaughter, her bla…