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How the West Was Won. Academy Award-winning epic follows the trials and tribulations of three generations of a frontier family as they embark to tame the wild American West. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
How the West Was Won is an American Western television series that starred James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, and Richard Kiley.
Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus (James Stewart), who helps them fight off a pack of thieves.
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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.
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 ...
The 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.
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.
