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Name: How The West Was Won
Released: 1963-2-20
Cast: John Wayne, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Eli Wallach, Gregory Peck

How The West Was Won

G
2h 35m
1963

87%

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This sweeping historical epic of the United States' westward expansion across the North American continent unfolds over 50 years through the lives of four generations of pioneers--using the American West as its canvas--and stars many of Hollywood's greatest.

Director:

George Marshall, Henry Hathaway, John Ford

Writer:

James R. Webb

Cast:

John Wayne, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Eli Wallach, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

87%

Reviews

Solzy at the Movies

Danielle Solzman

How the West Was Won is a star-studded Western with an impressive level of filmmaking on an epic scale.

A buffalo stampede and a raft caught in some terrifying rapids did make their point to my more primitive nerve centers, but the rest was the old stuff directed and acted by the old-stuffers and on a level considerably below their best performances.

In all the gargantuousness, however there are redeemable moments, especially in Ford's oddly scaled Civil War episode.

It really is true to say they don't make them like this any more.

Here, then, is a film with apparently something for everyone. Certainly its team of four ace cameramen have provided a full quota of visual splendours and the rich colour definition in the long shots communicates an authentic thrill of pleasure.

March 6, 2020

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