Across the Wide Missouri | |
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Directed by | William A. Wellman |
Screenplay by | Talbot Jennings |
Story by | Frank Cavett |
Based on | Across the Wide Missouri 1947 novel by Bernard DeVoto |
Produced by | Robert Sisk |
Starring | Clark Gable John Hodiak Ricardo Montalbán James Whitmore María Elena Marqués |
Narrated by | Howard Keel |
Cinematography | William C. Mellor |
Edited by | John Dunning |
Music by | David Raksin |
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Distributed by | Loew's Inc.[1] |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English, 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.