Across the Wide Missouri (film)

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Across the Wide Missouri

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Directed by William A. Wellman
Produced by Robert Sisk
Written by Frank Cavett
Talbot Jennings
Bernard DeVoto (book)
Starring Clark Gable
Music by David Raksin
Cinematography William Mellor
Editing by John Dunning
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Release date(s) 1951
Running time 78 min.
Country USA
Language English
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Across the Wide Missouri is a film produced in 1951, based on the historical work Across the Wide Missouri. 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 Flint Mitchell, Ricardo Montalban as Blackfoot Iron Shirt, John Hodiak as Brecan, J. Carrol Naish as Nez Perce Looking Glass, and Adolphe Menjou as Pierre. Howard Keel, as Mitchell's son, narrates.

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