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.

Clark Gable
as Flint Mitchell

Ricardo Montalban
as Ironshirt

John Hodiak
as Brecan

Adolphe Menjou
as Pierre

J. Carrol Naish
as Looking Glass

Jack Holt
as Bear Ghost

Alan Napier
as Capt. Humberstone Lyon

George Chandler
as Gowie

Richard Anderson
as Dick

María Elena Marqués
as Kamiah
John Chard
Trees lie where they fall, and men were buried where they died. One of the most frustrating things in cinema is that of the interfering studio. Too many films, since cinema became the medium so massively loved by so many, have fallen victim to this most poisonous fly in the cinematic ointment. On...