Across the Wide Missouri (film)

Across the Wide Missouri
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWilliam A. Wellman
Screenplay byTalbot Jennings
Story byFrank Cavett
Based onAcross the Wide Missouri
1947 novel
by Bernard DeVoto
Produced byRobert Sisk
StarringClark Gable
John Hodiak
Ricardo Montalbán
James Whitmore
María Elena Marqués
Narrated byHoward Keel
CinematographyWilliam C. Mellor
Edited byJohn Dunning
Music byDavid Raksin
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • October 26, 1951 (1951-10-26)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish, Chinuk Wawa
Budget$2,220,000
Box office$4,601,000

Across the Wide Missouri is a 1951 American Technicolor Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalbán, John Hodiak and James Whitmore. The screenplay is based on historian Bernard DeVoto's eponymous 1947 book and dramatizes an account of several fur traders and their interaction with the local Indians.