Release Date: Oct 23, 1951 Wide
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Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives purely by his wits, Gable avoids being scalped by the Blackfoot Indians by marrying Maria Elena Marques, the chief's daughter. This marriage of convenience also allows Gable to trap to his heart's content in Blackfoot territory. After bearing a child, Marques is killed by a warring tribe; the opportunistic Gable at first considers abandoning the child, but at long last does
Oct 23, 1951 Wide
Dec 11, 1991
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A savagely cut film by MGM studio boss Dore Schary who does his best to try and ruin it.
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)This is a great movie, directed by Wild Bill Wellman and shows off the wild west in all it's Technicolor beauty. The film is filled with rugged mountain men doing wild and crazy antics; lots of fighting and brawling. Flint Mitchell (Clark Gable) is a trapper, and when he finds out that
December 7, 2010
Realism and attention to detail highlight this otherwise routine tale of opening of the west by mountain-men. Clark Gable's performance is subdued in his portrayal of a trapper that takes on an Indian wife in hostile territory. The scenery is pretty and the story moves at a good clip with exciting finale.
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