Across the Wide Missouri (film)

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Across the Wide Missouri
Promotional film poster
Directed by	William A. Wellman
Produced by	Robert Sisk
Written by	Frank Cavett Talbot Jennings Bernard DeVoto (book)
Starring	Clark Gable John Hodiak Ricardo Montalban
Music by	David Raksin
Cinematography	William Mellor
Editing by	John Dunning
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	1951
Running time	78 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
IMDb profile

Across the Wide Missouri (1951) is a film 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.

During filming, Ricardo Montalbán was reportedly thrown off a horse, knocked out, and walked on by another horse, leaving him with a spinal injury. This injury recurred in 1993, which force him into a wheelchair.

[edit] See also

• Across the Wide Missouri, the book on which the film was based

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Across the Wide Missouri at the Internet Movie Database

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