Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri (1951)

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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 way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.

Date of release
1951-10-12
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (37)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Adventure, Romance, Western
Director
William A. Wellman

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Across the Wide Missouri
  • Filmed in: Colorado

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.

Production

During filming, Ricardo Montalbán was reportedly thrown from a horse, knocked unconscious and trampled by another horse, causing a spinal injury that recurred in 1993 and confined him to a wheelchair.

The film was shot largely in the Rocky Mountains, mostly at altitudes between 9,000 and 14,000 feet (2,743 and 4,267 meters), north of Durango, Colorado near Purgatory Resort and Molas Pass, the main location sites.

The narration of the adult Chip Mitchell in the film was the suggestion of MGM producer Sam Zimbalist in response to negative audience reaction about the film's excessive length. Zimbalist felt that the insertion of the narration would enable the film to be edited while maintaining the integrity of the story. Director William A. Wellman, devastated by the cuts, disowned the film.

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