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How the West Was Won [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actors: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, Carroll Baker
  • Directors: George Marshall, Henry Hathaway, John Ford, Richard Thorpe
  • Producers: Aubrey Solomon, Bernard Smith
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language English, French
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Classification: G (General Audience) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Jul 1998
  • Run Time: 150 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0792839072
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 132,902 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars It needs to be seen on the giant screen, 10 Nov 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How the West Was Won [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
How the West Was Won seems to become more of an endurance task every year. While it throws in everything - injun attacks, shooting the rapids, stampedes, train wrecks, the Civil War, wagon trains - except a good old fashioned gunfight, the characterization and linking narrative wrapped around Richard Talmadge's impressive action scenes are a long way from the best of the West. Whether it's Karl Malden, Carol Baker, Robert Preston or Gregory Peck hamming it up or Debbie Reynolds raising yet another ruckus in another painfully gratuitous musical number, the squirm factor is high. Although John Ford's Civil War section (aided by plentiful stock footage from Raintree County) is the best remembered, the film doesn't really pick up until Reynolds is sidelined out of the picture and George Marshall takes over the directorial reins for the impressive railroad section, where it really starts to confront a few of the darker aspects of the price of progress and allows George Peppard, Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda to shine. Unfortunately by then fatigue is beginning to set in, and for all the beauty of the color the transfer from three-panel Cinerama to letterboxed DVD leaves the film with some very jarring distortion problems that leaves much of the film looking like it's being played in a semi-circle. And the film's exultant ending that sees the magnificent scenery buried under miles of highways and skyscrapers now seems more tragedy than triumph. At the end of the day it's pure popcorn fodder, but it has its moments and Alfred Newman's score at least has the dynamism that the majority of the film lacks.
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4.0 out of 5 stars How to make an Epic, 5 April 2009
This review is from: How the West Was Won [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)



It is hugely ambitious to try and make a film that covers the epoch changing era of the opening of the West. That this film manages to do so to a large extent is quite an achievement, and most deserving of this excellent restoration from cinerama. Few films can boast such a glittering array of mega stars and wonderful support actors. Even the narration was by the venerable Spencer Tracy.

"How the West Was Won"(63) covers four generations of the Prescott family from 1839-1889. The family starts out from New York and head West to the Pacific Ocean. The film is composed of five segments. Three are directed by Henry Hathaway. "The Rivers", "The Plains" and "The Outlaws". John Ford directed "The Civil War" and George Marshall directed "The Railroad".

The film starts with the Prescott family heading West down the rivers led by Karl Malden. They face many dangers from bandits and the treacherous waters of the rivers. They also meet a tough mountain man Linus Rawlings played by Jimmy Stewart. After a terrible accident that kills some of the family, Linus marries Eve Prescott leaving her independently minded sister Lillith, played by Debbie Reynolds to head West on her own.

We head West to the plains where Lillith joins a wagon train and braves the dangers of Indian attacks and the rigours of the journey. She also has to fight off the attentions of Robert Preston the wagon train leader and a raffish gambler Cleve Van Valen played with panache by Gregory Peck. Being high spirited she opts for Peck.

We move to the Civil War at the time of the bloody battle of Shiloh where a shocked young Zebulon Rawlings played by George Peppard has just begun to understand the true horrors of war. During this sequence he kills a deserter about to try and murder the Union Generals Ulysses Simpson Grant and William Tecumsah Sherman. Sherman was played by John Wayne who gave a much better performance than he did as the Centurion in the crucifixion scene of that other epic " The Greatest Story in the World".

We then head to the the railroads at the time when the dream of a railroad across this great continent became a reality. Zeb is now a Lieutenant in the US Cavalry trying to keep peace between the railroad and the Indians, helped by a grizzled old Mountain man Jethro Stuart played by Henry Fonda. When an unscrupulous railroad boss played by Richard Widmark violates a treaty with the Indians, Zeb disgusted heads West to Arizona.

In "The Outlaws" we see Zeb as a sheriff now joined by his Aunt Lillith arrived from San Francisco after the death of Cleve. Zeb has a run in with his old enemy, the outlaw Charlie Grant played by Eli Wallach. We head to a showdown where we hope the Prescott family will find peace in a tamed frontier.

It is an epic subject and hard to give a brief synopsis on. Hopefully I have not overcooked it. I think this film demonstrates just how good an epic can be. As the old adage goes. When they are good they are very good and when they are bad they are horrid. This is of the good variety. It is an enjoyable journey through the different phases of the opening up of the great untamed West. Highly recommended.

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