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12/10/1951 Adventure, Romance, Western 1h 18m
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The action, the drama, the men, the women... who blasted their heroic way into a new empire!

Overview

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.

  1. William A. Wellman

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Clark Gable

    Flint Mitchell

  2. Ricardo Montalban

    Ironshirt

  3. John Hodiak

    Brecan

  4. Adolphe Menjou

    Pierre

  5. J. Carrol Naish

    Looking Glass

  6. Jack Holt

    Bear Ghost

  7. Alan Napier

    Capt. Humberstone Lyon

  8. George Chandler

    Gowie

  9. Richard Anderson

    Dick

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2017-02-09
Trees lie where they fall, and men were buried where they died.

One of the most frustrating things in cinema is that of the interfering studio. Too many films, since cinema became the medium so massively loved by so many, have fallen victim to this most poisonous fly in the cinematic ointment. One such film to suffer greatly is the William A. Welman directed Western, Across The Wide Missouri. All the elements were in place, a fine story written by Talbot Jennings & Frank Cavett, which is worked from Bernard DeVoto's historical study of the American fur trade in the 1830s. Wellman (The Call ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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