Does anyone know?

Wild River was filmed closer to Chattnooga, TN around 1959. I beleive Linden is farther west. But you never know I'm sure they moved around the various river in search of ideal locations.

Well, we know one thing, it can't be the old Tennessee as that was drown by the Yankee New Deal; but, then again, that was the theme of "Wild River". My grandad use to say that by creating the TVA, "the yankees prevented the hundred year flood by giving us a permanent 10,000 year flood." But of course, Roosevelt's basic plan no matter what he said for public consumption was to throw federal jobs to the northern unions and send electricity to the nothern manufactures.

Southron


P.S. I suggest if you are interested in the Tennessee River, you should read Donald Davidson's two-book HISTORY OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER. The opening line of book one is one of the best in the history of American literature. It begans: "Down the valley of the Tennessee runs two rivers..."

this movie was filmed in Bradley County and Polk County TN. The river it was filmed on is the Ocoee River.

It might be one of these two films:

“Walk in the Spring Rain” (1970) with Anthony Quinn and Ingrid Bergman

“I Walk the Line” (1970) with Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld.

Both were filmed in Tennessee and both involve a Tennessee lawman having personal problems.

WILD RIVER was filmed in the town,s of CALHOON AND CHARLSTON on the HIWASEE RIVER and the farm house and the little house that was used were my kin folk my last name is TOOMEY and yes REGUS TOOMEY is my great uncle he told the director about my familys location and was used in the film. I was the set goffer and got to know miss REMICK vary well I was 12 years old and had a crush on the 24 year old.I didn,t like mr Clift he was drunk most of the time.DERN was only on set for 2 day,s at the station and the barber shop. The town,s are all but gone now, i could hardly beleave just how much had changed all that,s left is the cotten shed and the old barber shop. I hope this will help

I'm not sure why I didn't post here before, considering I read your post about two years ago. I probably didn't want to give out any personally identifying information, and I'm still not going to. :> in any case, I have lived in Cleveland, TN (Bradley County) all of my life. I have relatives who live in the exact area where part of this was filmed, and have been there many times. I don't know where exactly all of the scenes were shot or which ones in particular were used at the location I'm most familiar with, but I can tell you that there's an island in the Hiwassee River near Upper River Rd. in Charleston, TN, and there was a woman who lived on the mainland and operated a ferry (or something to that effect), who did not want to give up her house. I cannot remember if that was in the movie (it's been a long time since I watched it) or if that's only partially what the movie was based on.

in any event, you can see the exact location of said island and ferry (the little white road going to to the river) here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp;q=upper+river+rd,+charleston,+tn&sll=35.299259,-84.779816& sspn=0.026794,0.05579&g=lower+river+rd,+charleston,+tn&ie=UTF8 &ll=35.246416,-84.714289&spn=0.006703,0.013947&t=k&z=1 7

there is a sign by that house that has "Wild River" written on it if memory serves.
it is a nice place.

update: three months later! I've just recently taken a more keen interest in the geology of my area and have been finding out quite a bit. it would seem that this island might have a name ("Coon Denton Island"), but I am not sure if this site has something incorrect: http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lon=-84.7138276&lat=35.2453511&amp ; ; ;datum=nad83

I have actually been very near to this island on jet skis in the past without realizing it (I didn't know about it at the time). this is pretty incredible. I will be going back soon--I plan on buying some sort of water craft for the purpose of exploration. it is slightly upstream of two much larger islands in the Hiwassee: Ledford Island, which is apparently a Woodland/Mississippian Indian site of some archaeological importance, and the Hiwassee Island (approx. 400 acres), which probably has similar characteristics, and is also currently the home of a veritable bird sanctuary; I have personally seen hundreds of great blue herons, sandhill cranes, and ospreys there, as well as a couple of bald eagles and their aerie in the vicinity.

there are some photos to be seen of these sites as well as other sites in the general area here: http://ronlowery.com/aerial/galleryaerial.html

I also find a bit more information (and a cite) here: http://tnsos.org/tsla/imagesearch/citation.php?ImageID=24117

It was filmed in Charleston, Tennessee near Chattanooga on the Hiwassee and Tennessee Rivers.