In partnership with Marshall County Tourism and Sports, the Guntersville Museum will host a movie screening of "Wild River", the 1960 movie starring Montgomery Clift that focuses on a battle of wills between the Tennessee Valley Authority and generations-old land-owners and their reaction to changes to their land, as well as the controversial employment of African-American laborers by the TVA. It marked Bruce Dern's film debut. The film was selected for National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2002.

Montgomery Clift, one of the many great faces of the screen, stars in a movie called “Wild River” a tale that will seem oddly familiar to many in this region. The movie’s storyline involves a family unwilling to give up their land to Clift, who works for the Tennessee Valley Authority, and has been put in charge of clearing the land for flooding. As the story unfolds, those living in the Tennessee Valley and Guntersville area will definitely see some similarities to what happened here so many years ago with the building of Guntersville Dam.

Join the museum in a special screening of “Wild River” on Sunday, Sept. 15th. Enjoy the show, some movie snacks and then a conversation following that will shed light on the similarities and
differences in the movie and the true story of how Guntersville Reservoir was formed.