Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri

78 mins | Adventure, Romance, Western | Oct. 12, 1951

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.

Across the Wide Missouri

78 mins | Adventure, Romance, Western | Oct. 12, 1951

Across the Wide Missouri
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Across the Wide Missouri
Directors William A. Wellman
Writers Bernard DeVoto, Frank Cavett, Talbot Jennings

Cast

Clark Gable

as Flint Mitchell

Ricardo Montalban

as Ironshirt

John Hodiak

as Brecan

Adolphe Menjou

as Pierre

J. Carrol Naish

as Looking Glass

Jack Holt

as Bear Ghost

Alan Napier

as Capt. Humberstone Lyon

George Chandler

as Gowie

Bobby Barber

as Gardipe (uncredited)

Timothy Carey

as Baptiste DuNord (uncredited)

Frankie Darro

as Cadet (uncredited)

Douglas Fowley

as Tin Cup Owens (uncredited)

Howard Keel

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

James Whitmore

as Old Bill (uncredited)