Across the Wide Missouri (1951)

Directors

William A. Wellman

Cast

Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou, J. Carrol Naish, Jack Holt, Alan Napier

The story

thumb|left|200 px|Clark Gable and María Elena Marqués in Across the Wide Missouri In the 1830s in the Rocky Mountains, fur trapper Flint Mitchell meets with other mountain men, selling his furs, drinking and enjoying contests with his friends. He organizes a hunting brigade into the beaver-rich Blackfoot territory, buying horses and recruiting trappers, despite protests from his Scottish friend and former trading partner Brecan, who lives among the Blackfoot and warns him that the land belongs to them. Flint outbids Brecan for Kamiah, the granddaughter of Blackfoot medicine man Bear Ghost and adopted daughter of a Nez Perce chief, Looking…

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