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How the West Was Won (1962)
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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. |
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| Carroll Baker | ... |
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... Written by alfiehitchie
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A Conquista do Oeste See more »Box Office
Budget:
$15,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$50,000,000 (Worldwide) (December 1969)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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(1763) (uncredited)
Music by Thomas Hastings
Lyrics by Augustus Montague Toplady
Performed by all at the Prescotts' burial See more »
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The train station in the film at "Gold City" was shot at Perkinsville, Arizona, and is still standing, although in a state of disrepair. It is now the mid stopping point of the Verde Canyon Scenic Railroad. The train station, the town sign and several other smaller buildings still exist. See more »Goofs
Anachronisms: A modern water tower appears in the background of a wide shot of troops during Mexican War narration. 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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"Rock of Ages"(1763) (uncredited)
Music by Thomas Hastings
Lyrics by Augustus Montague Toplady
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