Across the Wide Missouri (1951)

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Fur trappers travel through the American frontier and interact with Native American tribes. Clark Gable plays one of the main traders in this story based on a historical book.

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What happens

Across the Wide Missouri is a 1951 American Technicolor Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalbán, John Hodiak and James Whitmore. The screenplay is based on historian Bernard DeVoto's eponymous 1947 book and dramatizes an account of several fur traders and their interaction with the local Indians. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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