1962 Western Epic
Oldie Movie DVD Digitally Mastered from Archival Prints
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All-Star Cast in
"How the West Was Won"
3 Oscar Academy Awards for Best Story and Screenplay Writing, Best Film Editing, Best Sound; and 5 othe Nominations
All-star cast includes Carroll Baker, Walter Brennan, Lee J. Cobb, Andy Devine, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Harry Morgan, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, and Richard Widmark
The picture was one of the last "old-fashioned" epic films made by MGM to enjoy great success. The movie was set between 1839 and 1889, consists of five segments, three directed by Henry Hathaway ("The Rivers", "The Plains" and "The Outlaws"), and one each by John Ford ("The Civil War") and George Marshall ("The Railroad"), with transitional sequences by the uncredited Richard Thorpe.
The epic film which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean - 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 dream of settlement realized, but not, mercifully, the aerial shots of the Los Angeles freeway traffic with which the film ends...
Digital Repaired High Quality DVD
English Language, 162 min.
Color, with removable sub-titles
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