Across the Wide Missouri

Directed by William A. Wellman

Written by Talbot Jennings, Talbot Jennings, Frank Cavett, Bernard DeVoto

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.

Cast

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

María Elena Marqués

Kamiah

Bobby Barber

Gardipe (uncredited)

Timothy Carey

Baptiste DuNord (uncredited)