Across the Great Divide (1976)

Plotzle Expert · E36 · April 6, 2026 · Action / Drama

Six plot descriptions for Across the Great Divide (1976). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A Marine Corps veteran returns to his coastal Maine hometown in 1982 and reconnects with his estranged brother while working on a commercial fishing boat during lobster season.
2. Two orphans journey across the snow-covered Rocky Mountains in 1876 to claim their inheritance of a 400-acre plot of land in Salem, Oregon, traversing the rugged wilderness to reach their destination.
3. A widowed rancher discovers his late wife had been sending money to a family in Montana and travels there to meet them and understand her hidden second life.
4. A former boxer trains a young fighter in Detroit but their relationship deteriorates when the fighter begins using the same performance drugs that ended the trainer's own career.
5. Two rival smugglers in 1920s Arizona agree to transport a shipment across the Mexican border together when their usual routes become blocked by federal agents and local militias.
6. Three construction workers build a suspension bridge connecting two hostile towns in rural Wyoming and the project becomes a test of their differing values and loyalties.