Across the Wide Missouri
by William A. Wellman
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Actor: Adolphe Menjou, Clark Gable, J. Carrol Naish, John Hodiak, Ricardo MontalbanDirector: William A. Wellman
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; French (Original Language)
Format: Color, Mono, NTSC
Running Time: 78 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video
Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Across the Wide Missouri
Movie Review: Lyrical and elegaic Western
Summary: 4 Stars
It is impossible to watch this at time breathtakingly beautiful movie without sadness not least because what survives is a mere fraction of the movie made by the great William Wellman -the studio interfered in the picture excising great swathes of the footage Wellman shot and adding a ponderous voice over narration declaimed in sonourous mannner by Howard Keel which adds nothing to the picture whatsoever .It is a movie about the destruction of a way of life -that of the mountain men .The source material is a novel by Bernard de Soto which is based on the life of one such man , Flint Mitchell ,who controlled the trade with the Blackfoot Indians in the Rockies during the 1820,s .In many ways he was the very incarnation of the pioneer spirit , a trader and adventurer married to a Native American ,and the movie shows how this idyllic lifestyle is blown away by the inexorable rise of white society on the frontier as it gradually "civilises " previously virgin lands .
The society is one where whites and Indians co-exist and intermarry as a matter of course and even this comparative racial harmomy is destroyed by "society"and the violence it brings in its wake
Achingly lovely location photography make the movie a visual poem to the American landscape and it dwarves most of the players but Gable gives one of his strongest performances
This is a fascinating movie but I suspect if Wellman had been alllowed to pursue his original vision we would be talking about an acclaimed masterpiece rather than the rump left by an nervous studio
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