The Big Sky (1952) on Netflix
Approved19522h 13mAdventureDramaWestern
Jim Deakins and Boone Caudill meet in the Kentucky wilderness and head to St. Louis to find Boone's uncle, Zeb Calloway. They join a trading voyage up the Missouri to the Blackfoot.
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- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb6.9/105,380 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes89%
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Plot summary
In 1832 Jim Deakins is on his own in the Kentucky wilderness when he runs into Boone Caudill, who greets him with hostility, and the pair become friends. They travel to St. Louis to look for Boone's uncle, Zeb Calloway, and find him in jail after a brawl with fur traders. "Frenchy" Jourdonnais, who owns a sailing barge called the Mandan, pays their bail, and Zeb talks him into carrying Jim and Boone along on a trading expedition. Some thirty trappers ride the barge 2,000 miles up the Missouri and on into the Yellowstone to trade with the Blackfoot, competing with the Missouri Fur Company. Teal Eye, a Blackfoot woman in Zeb's care who escaped an enemy tribe years before, is meant to rejoin her father, a chief, so that trade can begin.
Cast
- Thol Simonsonas Boatman
- William Selfas Boatman
- Beulah Archulettaas Blackfoot Dancer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Big Sky (1952)
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- A Chicago Tribune reviewer noted The Big Sky's excessive length, and the film was later reduced from 140 minutes to 122 minutes for its general release.
