Mud on the Stars | movie | 2011 | Official Trailer
A documentary about Elia Kazan's 1960 film Wild River, told by the people of Bradley County, Tennessee, where it was fil | dG1fYTJMSXNzZXN2UXc
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00:00 [ Music ]
00:10 >> Our little town looks so good.
00:13 We're just so excited about Wild River Days.
00:15 >> I would hear an old person talk about Wild River
00:18 and as soon as the subject got brought up, their expression would change.
00:22 >> Fifty years ago, there wasn't a lot of movie making, especially around here.
00:27 >> We're making more money than some of the fathers were making, you know.
00:31 >> We heard Monty was an alcoholic.
00:34 >> That was real stuff where he slept on that porch.
00:38 He was actually intoxicated.
00:40 >> There were times that he might not have been, you know, real sober,
00:45 but it didn't interfere with his acting.
00:48 >> All the conversations that Montgomery Clift had in the movie was done right here.
00:53 >> We're going to have a DJ there that's going to play music from the era
00:56 and then also some Hollywood-themed music like "Hooray for Hollywood"
00:59 because, you know, "Hooray for Hollywood," the filming here made a big impact.
01:03 >> This is going to be probably the biggest event that's happened here
01:07 since Lamar Alexander came through and walked the streets here in Charleston.
01:11 >> We're going to put a press release out this week in the banner
01:15 just to kind of keep the word out that we're looking for things.
01:18 >> I've got a china cabinet that was in the film.
01:21 I've got a piece of a fairy, of the fairy.
01:24 >> Yeah, one of the actual boards.
01:27 >> So cool.
01:30 >> Cletus Benton, you know, owned the Starview Theater, and everybody was there.
01:35 >> No one said, "Hey, they're having a premiere at the Starview."
01:38 >> To me, I think anybody can come.
01:41 >> That wasn't the way it was then.
01:42 >> That wasn't the way it was then.
01:44 >> You hear that electricity? That's progress right there.
01:47 >> That's progress.
01:49 >> Elliott Kazan, he was a good man. He didn't treat you different.
01:53 Some of them called him Elliot, and some called him Eli,
01:57 but I always just called him Mr. Kazan.
02:00 Monty Cliff was just really good to Judy, and Lee was too.
02:04 She bought her a doll.
02:06 >> What's your name?
02:08 >> Aubree.
02:09 >> They offered a contract after it was over.
02:12 We weren't going to split the family up to put her in school in California.
02:16 >> You and I and our moms spent a lot of time under those trees.
02:20 >> Just talking and playing and coloring.
02:23 >> We had projector problems. We've had sound problems.
02:25 We've had air conditioner problems.
02:28 >> The situation is it's 83 degrees in the church.
02:35 [singing]
02:43 >> This is where the car scene was shot, right here.
02:45 >> Yes.
02:47 [singing]
02:59 >> We just had a good time out here.
03:01 [silence]