Across the Wide Missouri (film)
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| Directed by | William A. Wellman |
| Produced by | Robert Sisk |
| Screenplay by | Talbot Jennings |
| Story by | Frank Cavett |
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Across the Wide Missouri 1947 novel by Bernard DeVoto |
| Starring |
Clark Gable John Hodiak Ricardo Montalbán James Whitmore María Elena Marqués |
| Narrated by | Howard Keel |
| Music by | David Raksin |
| Cinematography | William Mellor |
| Edited by | John Dunning |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English, Chinuk Wawa |
| Budget | $2,220,000 |
| Box office | $4,601,000 |
Across the Wide Missouri is a 1951 American Technicolor 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.
The film was directed by William A. Wellman and starred 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.
In the 1830s in the Rocky Mountains, fur trapper Flint Mitchell (Clark Gable) meets at the summer "rendezvous" with other mountain men, cashing in his furs, drinking, and enjoying contests among his friends. He organizes a hunting "brigade" into the beaver-rich Blackfoot territory, buying horses and recruiting trappers, despite protests from his Scottish friend and former trading partner, Brecan (John Hodiak), who lives among the Blackfoot and warns him that the land belongs to them. Flint outbids Brecan for Kamiah (María Elena Marqués), the granddaughter of Blackfoot medicine man Bear Ghost and adopted daughter of a Nez Perce chief, Looking Glass (J. Carrol Naish). Brecan wants to return her to the Blackfoot, to promote peace between the tribes, while Flint wants to marry Kamiah and ensure the brigade's safety.
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