The Big Sky

The Big Sky

1952 · 2 hr 20 min · Approved

Adventure, Drama, Western

Directors

Howard Hawks

Actors

  • Kirk Douglas
  • Dewey Martin
  • Elizabeth Threatt

Credits: 8

Summary

The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.

More about this movie

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 have to 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, like Deakins, are left.