The Big Sky

In this film, Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin play a pair of Kentucky frontiersmen who embark upon the first keelboat trip up the Missouri River in 1830. Joining Douglas and Martin are Martin’s grizzled old uncle Arthur Hunnicutt and garrulous Frenchman Steven Geray., In 1830, two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to contend with. Based on the novel by AB Guthrie Jr, In 1830, two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to contend with. Based on the novel by AB Guthrie Jr., Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they must get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few are left., Adventure movie in which Kirk Douglas plays a frontiersman piloting his way through unexplored country in the early 1900s., Howard Hawks’ version of the A.B. Guthrie novel about Kentucky frontiersmen taking a keelboat trip up the Missouri River in the 1830s and running into some Indian trouble along the way., In 1830, two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to contend with., Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they must get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo.