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How the West Was Won (1962) 7.0
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century--including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads. Writer:James R. Webb |
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Eve Prescott
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| Lee J. Cobb | ... | ||
| Henry Fonda | ... | ||
| Carolyn Jones | ... | ||
| Karl Malden | ... | ||
| Gregory Peck | ... | ||
| George Peppard | ... | ||
| Robert Preston | ... | ||
| Debbie Reynolds | ... | ||
| James Stewart | ... | ||
| Eli Wallach | ... | ||
| John Wayne | ... | ||
| Richard Widmark | ... | ||
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Brigid Bazlen | ... | |
| Walter Brennan | ... | ||
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Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later. On the way they encounter river pirates, and escape with the help of fur trapper Linus Rawlings, who subsequently marries one of their daughters, Eve. The parents are drowned on a foundering raft, and the other daughter Lilith becomes a riverboat singer and catches the eye of a genteel adventurer Cleve Van Valen. They cross the plains together in a wagon train and make and lose a fortune in California; meanwhile Linus has turned farmer and, comes the Civil War, joins the Union Army and is killed at the Battle of Shiloh. One of his sons Zeb also joins the army and stays after the war as a cavalry officer and is sent to Colorado to help guard the pioneering railroad against the Indians, whose land they are crossing. By this time Lilith is the elderly lady of the family, having survived long enough to see the ... Written by alfiehitchie
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Country:
USARelease Date:
20 February 1963 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Conquista do Oeste See more »Box Office
Budget:
$15,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$12,150,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Narrator: [as the camera pans over the Rocky Mountains] This land has a name today, and is marked on maps. But, the names and the marks and the maps all had to be won, won from nature and from primitive man.
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(1962) (uncredited)
Music by Alfred Newman
Lyrics by Ken Darby
Sung by a Chorus during Intermission
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James Stewart offered to play his own dead body in the Civil War story but was refused by John Ford who instead used a double who bore no resemblance to Stewart. When George Peppard imitates Stewart's voice during the grizzly bear reminiscence story he was reprimanded by Ford but yelled back that he wanted the audience to remember that Stewart played his father. See more »Goofs
While she is refusing Morgan's proposal, Lilith's shoulder strap is on/off her shoulder between shots. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: [as the camera pans over the Rocky Mountains] This land has a name today, and is marked on maps. But, the names and the marks and the maps all had to be won, won from nature and from primitive man.
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Soundtracks
"Nine Hundred Miles from Home"(1962) (uncredited)
Music by Alfred Newman
Lyrics by Ken Darby
Sung by a Chorus during Intermission
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I'm not a fan of westerns in particular, but this magnificent epic is an exception for me because it has all the wonderful elements of a sprawling historical epic that only Hollywood could do so wonderfully in the 50s and 60s. And yes, I embrace it for holding to a perspective that today's PC revisionists who see evil in everything associated with the rise of America as a great nation are always so quick to condemn. While this is by no means a flawless look at history, it is only those who dare to liken the American pioneers with "Nazis" as one reviewer did who end up "creating history" more than a film like this does.