Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
1h 18m
Running Time
October 12, 1951Release Date
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
1h 18m
Running Time
October 12, 1951Release Date
Plot.
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
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Cast & Crew.
Clark Gable
Flint Mitchell
Ricardo Montalban
Ironshirt
John Hodiak
Brecan
Adolphe Menjou
Pierre
J. Carrol Naish
Looking Glass
Jack Holt
Bear Ghost
Alan Napier
Capt. Humberstone Lyon
Bernard DeVoto
Writer
George Chandler
Gowie
Richard Anderson
Dick Richardson
María Elena Marqués
Kamiah
Bobby Barber
Gardipe (uncredited)
Timothy Carey
Baptiste DuNord (uncredited)
William A. Wellman
Director
Talbot Jennings
Writer
Frankie Darro
Cadet (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 12, 1951
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsColorado, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
Across the Wide Missouri is a 1951 American Technicolor Western film based on historian Bernard DeVoto's eponymous 1947 book. The film dramatizes an account of several fur traders and their interaction with the Native Americans.
Directed by William A. Wellman, the film stars Clark Gable as cunning trapper Flint Mitchell, Ricardo Montalbán as Blackfoot Iron Shirt, John Hodiak as Brecan, María Elena Marqués as Kamiah, a Blackfoot chief's daughter Mitchell marries and later falls in love with, J. Carrol Naish as Nez Perce Looking Glass, and Adolphe Menjou as Pierre. Howard Keel, as Mitchell's son "Chip Mitchell", narrates.