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Across the Wide Missouri

Year:

1951

Duration:

78 min | Argentina:82 min

Genres:

Adventure | Romance | Western

IMDB rate:

6.2

Director:

William A. Wellman

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1951-10-23

Filming Locations: Durango, Colorado, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Bobby Barber

Clark Gable

Flint Mitchell

Ricardo Montalban

Ironshirt

John Hodiak

Brecan

Adolphe Menjou

Pierre

J. Carrol Naish

Looking Glass

Jack Holt

Bear Ghost

Alan Napier

Capt. Humberstone Lyon

George Chandler

Gowie

Richard Anderson

Dick Richardson

María Elena Marqués

Kamiah

Maurice Brierre

French Trapper (uncredited)

Timothy Carey

Baptiste DuNord (uncredited)

Gene Coogan

Marcelline (uncredited)

Frankie Darro

Cadet (uncredited)

Michael Dugan

Gordon (uncredited)

Tatzumbia Dupea

Indian Woman (uncredited)

Evelyn Finley

Squaw (uncredited)

Douglas Fowley

Tin Cup Owens (uncredited)

Fred Gilman

Harris (uncredited)

Fred Graham

Brown (uncredited)

John Hartman

Chip Mitchell (uncredited)

Tex Holden

Peg Leg Smith (uncredited)

Don House

Luke (uncredited)

Howard Keel

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Andrew Knife

Yellow Plume (uncredited)

Bert LeBaron

LeBonte (uncredited)

Henri Letondal

Lucien Chennault (uncredited)

Frank McGrath

St. Leger (uncredited)

John McKee

Killbuck (uncredited)

Edith Mills

Indian Woman (uncredited)

Elaine Naish

Indian Girl (uncredited)

Elmer Napier

Shad Skeggs (uncredited)

Louis Nicoletti

Roy DuNord (uncredited)

Manuel París

French Trapper (uncredited)

Albert Petit

French Trapper (uncredited)

Albert Pollet

French Trapper (uncredited)

Frank Richards

Tige Shannon (uncredited)

Russell Simpson

Hoback (uncredited)

Jack Sterling

Davis (uncredited)

Nipo T. Strongheart

Indian Chief (uncredited)

Ben Watson

Markhead (uncredited)

James Whitmore

Old Bill (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Uncredited Stuntman, Jack N. Young, who had doubled for Clark Gabel in several movies as they were look-a-likes, was requested by Gabel to be his double on this movie. Gabel asked Mr. Jack if he would do his stunts without credit as it was billed Gabel was doing his own stunts. Mr. Young graciously told Mr. Gabel that was fine. Mr. Young could see that Mr. Gabel was ill and would not be able to do his own stunts as he had in the past. The admiration for each other was never more apparent than this conversation between the two men.

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During the filming, Ricardo Montalban was thrown from a horse and trampled; the resulting injury to his spine left him in constant pain for the rest of his life which increased as he aged, eventually leading to a 9-1/2 hour operation in 1993 in an unsuccessful attempt to correct the damage. The operation left him paralyzed from the waist down.

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When the original version of the finished film was submitted to MGM executives, they didn't like it. The film went through heavy editing, and a producer had the idea of tying together the surviving pieces by adding voice-over narration from Mitchell's grown up son, as if he is telling his father's life story. Howard Keel, who had just finished making Show Boat (1951), was brought in for this purpose. The changes led to director William A. Wellman effectively disowning the film. When asked about it in an interview, he said "I've not seen it, and I never will."

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Goofs

It's quite obvious that the papoose on the runaway horse is a doll.

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When the horse with Gable's son runs away. the child is originally on the right side of the horse. The succeeding shot shows him on the left side of the horse. Later shots show him back on the right side. The anomalous shot is shown again later with the baby now on the correct (right) side, indicating that the film had been flipped.

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Early in the movie when Kamiah is talking to Flint about trading horses for a wife, there is an automobile seen in the lower left hand corner driving along a road in the background far away. Obviously this movie took place long before cars were invented.

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Quotes

Narrator: My father told me that for the first time, he saw these Indians as he had never seen them before - as people with homes and traditions and ways of their own. Suddenly they were no longer savages. They were people who laughed and loved and dreamed.

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Narrator: Trees lie where they fall, and men were buried where they died.

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Brecan: Doesn't anything matter to you?

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