Across the Wide Missouri [VHS]
by William A. Wellman

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Movie Review: Lyrical and elegaic Western
Summary: 4 Stars

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

Movie Review: Wellman complicates civic history lesson.
Summary: 2 Stars

That's what the script says, and the cheerful narration and dazzlingly bright colours seem to confirm it. Us old Western hands know Wild Bill Wellman, though, director of bleak critiques like 'The Ox-Bow Incident'. The chilling climax, therefore, refuses to simplify the tensions between community, family, and the violence needed to protect them, and can be now seen as foreshadowing the complexities of 'The Searchers'.

Movie Review: Outstanding Frontier Adventure film
Summary: 5 Stars

Movie Review: A Great Family Film
Summary: 5 Stars

Classics Video

• Genres > Action & Adventure
• Westerns > Classics
• Cowboys & Indians
• Westerns - General