Great adventure and script, with meticulous photography

A young Kirk Douglas stands out in this historic recreation of early western river travel

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Blackfeet... proud injuns. They ain't gonna let no white man spile their country. The only thing they'a feared of is a white man's sickness.

Grabs. White men don't see nothing pretty unless they want to grab it. The more they grab, the more they want to grab. It's like a fever and they can't get cured. The only thing for them to do is to keep on grabbin' until everything belongs to white men and then start grabbin' from each other. I reckon injuns got no reason to love nothing white.

Kirk Douglas and Elizabeth Threatt in The Big Sky (1952)

Kirk Douglas and Arthur Hunnicutt in The Big Sky (1952)

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Kirk Douglas

Dewey Martin

Elizabeth Threatt

Dudley Nichols

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Ray Buffum

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

Howard Hawks

The Big Sky

A Great Adventure Film

&quot;The Big Sky&quot; is one of the most unique and entertaining adventure films ever made.  Set in the American frontier of the early 1800s, it&apos;s the story of an ambitious party who pole their keel boat up the Missouri River into new territories, far beyond where other white men have ventured, to trade for furs with the Blackfeet Indians.

&quot;The Big Sky&quot; was filmed on location, and this alone makes the film worth watching, for the splenor of the Snake River and Grand Tetons, where the film was actually shot, is breathtaking.

But &quot;The Big Sky&quot; has other virtues which raise it far above the average &quot;scenic&quot;.  First, is the multi-layered plot.  Besides the story of an enterprise, &quot;The Big Sky&quot; is about how men, in a time long past, interacted, when their differences were subordinated to a higher purpose. Second, is director Howard Hawks, whose trademark &quot;naturalistic dialogue&quot; technique is put to wonderful use here.  Hawks works on complex relationships - male and female, &quot;Frenchie&quot; and Anglo backwoodsmen, Native Americans and whites - like a conductor a symphony.  Third, and perhaps most touching, is the tale of male bonding not only among the group of men, but one-on-one between Jim Deakins, played by Kirk Douglas, and Boone, his young sidekick, played by Hawks protegé Dewey Martin.  There&apos;s a nice, touching story toward the end.

This is a shamefully underrated film.  Superb cinematography (Oscar nominated), rich plot, flawless casting (Arthur Hunnicutt nominated for Best Supporting Oscar), masterful direction, make &quot;The Big Sky&quot; a true classic.

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"The Big Sky" is one of the most unique and entertaining adventure films ever made.  Set in the American frontier of the early 1800s, it's the story of an ambitious party who pole their keel boat up the Missouri River into new territories, far beyond where other white men have ventured, to trade for furs with the Blackfeet Indians.

"The Big Sky" was filmed on location, and this alone makes the film worth watching, for the splenor of the Snake River and Grand Tetons, where the film was actually shot, is breathtaking.

But "The Big Sky" has other virtues which raise it far above the average "scenic".  First, is the multi-layered plot.  Besides the story of an enterprise, "The Big Sky" is about how men, in a time long past, interacted, when their differences were subordinated to a higher purpose. Second, is director Howard Hawks, whose trademark "naturalistic dialogue" technique is put to wonderful use here.  Hawks works on complex relationships - male and female, "Frenchie" and Anglo backwoodsmen, Native Americans and whites - like a conductor a symphony.  Third, and perhaps most touching, is the tale of male bonding not only among the group of men, but one-on-one between Jim Deakins, played by Kirk Douglas, and Boone, his young sidekick, played by Hawks protegé Dewey Martin.  There's a nice, touching story toward the end.

This is a shamefully underrated film.  Superb cinematography (Oscar nominated), rich plot, flawless casting (Arthur Hunnicutt nominated for Best Supporting Oscar), masterful direction, make "The Big Sky" a true classic.

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