Across the Wide Missouri (film)
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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.
[edit] See also
- Across the Wide Missouri, the book on which the film was based