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How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway (who directs three out of the five chapters involving the same family), John Ford and George Marshall, produced by Bernard Smith, written by James R. Webb, and narrated by Spencer Tracy.
Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus who helps them fight off a pack of thieves. Linus then marries daughter Eve Prescott (Carroll Baker), and 30 years later goes off with their son to fight in the Civil War, with bloody results.
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- Adventure, War, Western
- John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
- 1963-02-20
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Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus who helps them fight off a pack of thieves. Linus then marries daughter Eve Prescott (Carroll Baker), and 30 years later goes off with their son to fight in the Civil War, with bloody results.
Eve's sister, Lily (Debbie Reynolds), heads further west and has adventures with a professional gambler (Gregory Peck), stretching all the way to San Francisco and into the 1880s.
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- Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb
- G
- Metro Goldwyn Mayer
How the West Was Won, American western film, released in 1962, that was a sprawling epic about the transformation of the American West in the 19th century. The story is told in five parts—“The Rivers,” “The Plains,” “The Civil War,” “The Railroad,” and “The Outlaws”—that follow several generations.
How the West Was Won comes across today as a distinctly old-fashioned western low in bloodshed, moderate in action, high in eye-catching scenery. Knowing that many Cinerama patrons brought their children along, the producers kept gunplay to a minimum and eliminated a subplot about a pregnant woman who leaves home to be a single mom, even though ...
