Across the Wide Missouri (film)

Across the Wide Missouri
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWilliam A. Wellman
Screenplay byTalbot Jennings
Story byFrank Cavett
Based onAcross the Wide Missouri
1947 novel
by Bernard DeVoto
Produced byRobert Sisk
StarringClark Gable
John Hodiak
Ricardo Montalbán
James Whitmore
María Elena Marqués
Narrated byHoward Keel
CinematographyWilliam C. Mellor
Edited byJohn Dunning
Music byDavid Raksin
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.[1]
Release date
  • October 26, 1951 (1951-10-26)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish, Chinuk Wawa
Budget$2,220,000[2]
Box office$4,601,000[2]

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.

  1. ^ Across the Wide Missouri at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study

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