Across the Wide Missouri

Oct 12, 1951

1h 18m

★ 5.9

The action, the drama, the men, the women... who blasted their heroic way into a new empire!

Overview

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.

Genres

Adventure

Romance

Western

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Across the Wide Missouri Trailers

Cast

Flint Mitchell

Clark Gable

Ironshirt

Ricardo Montalban

Brecan

John Hodiak

Pierre

Adolphe Menjou

Looking Glass

J. Carrol Naish

Bear Ghost

Jack Holt

Capt. Humberstone Lyon

Alan Napier

Gowie

George Chandler

Dick

Richard Anderson

Kamiah

María Elena Marqués

Gardipe (uncredited)

Bobby Barber

Baptiste DuNord (uncredited)

Timothy Carey

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