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Across the Wide Missouri (film)

Across the Wide Missouri
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by William A. Wellman
Produced by Robert Sisk
Screenplay by Talbot Jennings
Story by Frank Cavett
Based on 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
Release date
  • 1951 (1951)
Running time
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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