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A 1951 adventure drama film starring Clark Gable as a trapper who marries a Blackfoot woman in the Rocky Mountains. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, plot summary, and more on IMDb.
- (2.3K)
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- William A. Wellman
- 1951-10-21
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 ...
A western adventure film based on a novel by Bernard DeVoto, starring Clark Gable as an explorer and Ricardo Montalban as an Indian chief. The film follows the journey of settlers along the American frontier in the 19th century.
- William Wellman, Howard Koch
- Clark Gable
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35% Audience Score 100+ Ratings. Tough trapper Flint Mitchell (Clark Gable) is a tenacious survivor in the unforgiving wilderness of the West. Determined to stay on the good side of the local ...
- (13)
- William A. Wellman
- Adventure
- Clark Gable
Sep 1, 1998 · Paperback – September 1, 1998. by Bernard DeVoto (Author) 4.6 132 ratings. See all formats and editions. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s.
- Bernard DeVoto
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Summaries. Trapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief. 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 ...
