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Director:
Writers:
Talbot Jennings (screenplay)
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Release Date:
23 October 1951 (USA) more
Plot:
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Actor Ricardo Montalban Dies at 88
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Cast

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Clark Gable ... Flint Mitchell

Ricardo Montalban ... Ironshirt (Blackfoot war chief)
John Hodiak ... Brecan

Adolphe Menjou ... Pierre (French trapper)
J. Carrol Naish ... Looking Glass (Nez Perce chief)
Jack Holt ... Bear Ghost (Blackfoot medicine man)
Alan Napier ... Capt. Humberstone Lyon
George Chandler ... Gowie (Capt. Lyon's assistant)

Richard Anderson ... Dick
María Elena Marqués ... Kamiah (Blackfoot princess [Mitchell's wife])
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Additional Details

Runtime:
78 min | Argentina:82 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When the original version of the finished film was submitted to MGM executives, they didn't like it. The film went through heavy editing, and a producer had the idea of tying together the surviving pieces by adding voice-over narration from Mitchell's grown up son, as if he is telling his father's life story. Howard Keel, who had just finished making Show Boat (1951), was brought in for this purpose. The changes led to director William A. Wellman effectively disowning the film. When asked about it in an interview, he said "I've not seen it, and I never will." more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the horse with Gable’s son runs away. the child is originally on the right side of the horse. The succeeding shot shows him on the left side of the horse. Later shots show him back on the right side. more
Quotes:
Narrator: My dad wasn't just one man named Flint Mitchell. He was a breed of men... mountain men who lived and died in America. He used to tell me about these men he knew. Men who walked the Indian trails and blazed new ones where no man had ever been before. Men who found lakes and rivers and meadows... more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951) more
Soundtrack:
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10 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Honesty., 24 February 2004
Author: dbdumonteil

Honesty seems the first quality of this Wellmann work:it uses no less than three different languages:English,Indian language and French:it's really great fun to hear the cast sing on Xmas day the Canadian "Alouette gentille alouette" en Français dans le texte...even if the words have nothing to do with Christ's birth.

The second strong point is scenery:the landscapes are breathtakingly beautiful and the color is splendid indeed.Mountains and forest are lovingly filmed .

A lot of people will probably note similarities with Delmer Daves's famous "Broken arrow" which was released the precedent year .It's almost the same ending.I would favor Daves's work over Wellmann's because his characters are more endearing , his story more absorbing and the relationship characters/nature more convincing.But "Across the wide Missouri" is worth watching :the story is told by Gable's son who appears as a baby in the movie and shortly as a child .One scene is particularly touching,even if we realize it only afterward:Gable and his Indian wife are kissing each other while the small child is watching.There are a lot of deaths in this often cruel story,but neither the White nor the Indians are demeaned.

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