How the West Was Won (Blu-ray) G
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 4, 2011
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gregory Peck, John Wayne & James Stewart | |
Performer: | Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, Robert Preston, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Carolyn Jones, George Peppard, Debbie Reynolds & Eli Wallach | |
Directed by | Henry Hathaway, George Marshall & John Ford | |
Edited by | Harold F. Kress | |
Screenwriting by | James R. Webb | |
Composition by | Ken Darby & Alfred Newman | |
Produced by | Bernard Smith | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph LaShelle, Harold Wellman, William H. Daniels, Milton R. Krasner & Charles Lang |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Film Editing: Harold F. Kress
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Original Screenplay: James R. Webb
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Sound: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
A story as big, as brash, and as exciting as the west itself.
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DVDTalk.com
Rating: 5/5 --
Immense, sprawling western epic loaded with great stars, acting, music, direction.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
It would be hard to imagine a subject which lends itself more strikingly to the wide-screen process than this yarn of the pioneers who opened the American West.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
In all the gargantuousness, however there are redeemable moments, especially in Ford's oddly scaled Civil War episode.
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Empire Magazine
[T]he open-air sequences...with their unmoving camera, long-shot compositions and rootedness in the rural landscape, recall the work of the American pioneer D.W. Griffith.
New York Times
People have always been, and always will be, impressed with big movies; this Western was one of the very biggest.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 4/5 --
It really is true to say they don't make them like this any more.
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Radio Times
Product Description:
Hollywood's most celebrated luminaries--behind the camera as well as in front of it--combined talents to present this epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family. The film, divided into three chapters--"The Civil War" (directed by John Ford), "The Railroad" (directed by George Marshall), and "The River, the Plains, the Outlaws" (directed by Henry Hathaway)--tells the story of the Prescotts, a spirited group of easterners who make a declaration to migrate west. When their parents are lost in a tragic river accident, Eve (Carroll Baker) and Lilith (Debbie Reynolds) go their separate ways. Eve remains on the land that took her parents, settling down with the well-intentioned Linus Rawlings (James Stewart), while Lilith becomes a singer who is courted by the conniving Cleve Van Valen (Gregory Peck) when he learns that she has inherited a fortune in California. As time passes and the Civil War takes the life of Linus, the newest generation of Prescott offspring struggles with even greater danger and loss, in the form of fierce Indians as well as family archrivals. Top-notch production values and an endless string of solid performances have earned HOW THE WEST WAS WON the well-deserved label as one of Hollywood's most revered classics.
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- Sales Rank: 20,776
- UPC: 883929157747
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