How the West Was Won (1962)
Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later... (imdb)
Genres: Drama, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Directed By: John Ford, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe, Henry Hathaway
Written By: James R. Webb
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee J. Cobb, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Walter Brennan, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones
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How the West Was Won belongs to 18 collections
1. Academy Award - Oscar - Best Picture and Nominees (public: moderated by smviper00 - 32 stars)
2. National Film Registry (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 22 stars)
3. Academy Award - Oscar - ALL Best Picture, Directing, Acting & Screenplay Nominees (public - 17 stars)
4. Films available in HD (public: moderated by kubricksucks - 12 stars)
5. Oscar: Best Writing (adapted/original) (public: moderated by paulofilmo - 7 stars)
6. Epic (public: moderated by Spunkie - 5 stars)
7. Cinemacom's 500 Best Westerns (public: moderated by Pickpocket - 5 stars)
8. Hollywood Hits, 1920 to present (public: moderated by lisa- - 2 stars)
9. American Civil War (public: moderated by djross - 1 star)
10. urban legend (public: moderated by livelove - 1 star)
11. Highest grossing film of the year (public: moderated by djross - 1 star)
12. TOO WIDE!!! (public - 1 star)
13. Oscar: Film Editing (public: moderated by CarsonWid - 1 star)
14. Films Photographed by Joseph LaShelle (public: moderated by dookobore)
16. Coheed's Films I Need To See Or Try To Track Down (private: Coheed - 3 stars)
17. BF60 (private: caffe)
18. Best of Classic Old Hollywood (pre-70s) (private: 90sCoffee)
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krypt | 94 82% |
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Applies to Ford's "The Civil War" only
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| Oct 27, 2017 |  |
walkearth | 55 49% |
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Karl Malden's beard is a highlight in a film where the stellar cast is unapologetically misused. Joke aside, but apart from Debbie Reynolds and especially her wonderful sing/dance sequence, James Stewart and Malden the rest of the cast progressively blends in what is a bland and stale film that grows more forgettable by the minute. Sure looks pretty, but barring the first sequence and aforementioned dance scene, the rest can easily be skipped.
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| Sep 24, 2017 | adamja | 54 31% |
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| Oct 22, 2016 | jerrywarton | 69 68% |
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| Oct 18, 2016 | TheMarkle | 60 38% |
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lumpnboy | 35 25% |
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Was made to watch this in school as if it was educational or something. I don't remember the film at all, but surely there is no way that can reflect well on whoever was determining the curriculum. Whomever? They used Stallone films to teach grammar so who knows...
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| Aug 16, 2016 | toro913 | 58 54% |
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IndyFan12 | 80 46% |
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robot2xl | 74 83% |
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Long and horribly boring ,...
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Berty87 | 80 58% |
| May 01, 2016 | jgrayson_au | 90 89% |
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Niska | 21 24% |
| Mar 19, 2016 | zomgmouse | 80 69% |
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| Mar 17, 2016 | WulfstanLee | 100 94% |
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Beautifully shot and scored, though the politics are largely what you would expect for the early 60s.
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| Feb 19, 2016 | elcapu | 70 38% |
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| Jan 23, 2016 | kennardjon | 65 19% |
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| Jan 19, 2016 | Matt92 | 85 34% |
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| Jul 11, 2015 | DougieD | 20 2% |
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fra paolo | 43 43% |
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Worth viewing as an artifact, I suppose, especially of 1924-64 American attitudes. I counted one African-American person, a bartender on a steamboat IIRC, plenty of American Indians and a few Chinese. Hispanic people were represented briefly by the Mexican army, and there were probably a few I missed. Knowing what I know of post-annexation California, I would like to know who held title to Robert Preston's ranch before he did.
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| May 18, 2015 | TheBadgerMan | 50 18% |
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| Nov 16, 2014 | henrybr | 71 25% |
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theWizard | 10 96% |
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Ford's segment is a masterpiece for all time; the rest... no comment.
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Hadzibegovic | 65 30% |
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RavynLoony | 63 67% |
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themadelf66 | 50 10% |
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driscarpin | 79 66% |
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Em honra de Eli Wallach. Ó céus, este filme é plasticamente maravilhoso e tem tudo para ser uma obra prima, mas não é. E que fique bem claro que este é um filme mais do Henry Hathaway do que de qualquer dos outros diretores envolvidos.
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| Jun 22, 2014 | spweymouth | 80 65% |
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bof | 52 29% |
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Holy crap, it's gorgeous. Almost so gorgeous I can overlook the flat dialogue, the standardised plot(s) often copied straight from better movies (High Noon?), the miscast actors, the parodic voice-overs that make it all sound like a commercial... It's just too big and too gorgeous to fail completely, but that only goes so far.
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| Dec 22, 2011 | Hangarl | 55 44% |
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elmakebabi | 60 37% |
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Lame! Points for cinerama and the seconds showing Lee van Cleef.
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avgcrtckr | 54 52% |
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auhasarderik | 8 78% |
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About the prettiest pictures, better use of locations ever, biggest production and 2nd unit efforts ever, and Alfred Newman heaven. And what a beautiful country. You can do worse.
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ZayanK | 72 42% |
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Cinerama looks incredibly ugly on a TV screen.
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SirRobbie | 40 2% |
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Terrible. I don't know if this is a parody or not but it stinks.
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AndreasThau | 45 25% |
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Pretty, very pretty. Both ladies and scenery. But too. Long. From the minute James Stewart is no longer on the screen it just gets worse and worse. Depressing with such a cast. Eli Wallach, Henry Fonda, etc. are all very good, but are in the film for like 5-10 minutes each. Hell, Lee van Cleef isn't even credited and has no lines. The late John Ford really wasn't going anywhere.
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hitchmycock | 80 25% |
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tathiel | 84 81% |
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Blu-Ray made it possible to watch it in the intended Cinerama depiction. Stunning and gripping movie! Not one second was it boring. An awesome image is hunted by the next. A feast for the eyes!
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sirphibes | 78 75% |
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TheDiceman | 50 33% |
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A waste of great talent.
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Great cast, good story, good score, but something felt lacking.
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Not such a great movie as it was propagated by the media to be
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toanianaj | 60 26% |
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filmaffinity | 71 83% |
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good basic western but would have done better as a mini-series. too wide a story to fit into one movie. Loved the spencer tracy naration
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| Feb 05, 2009 |  |
djross | 40 25% |
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I have a very imperfect recall of this epic Western, which I saw many years ago.
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| Jan 17, 2009 |  |
Icarus | 70 41% |
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Certainly interesting for the spectacle, the film suffers from cliche-ridden dialogue and some strange casting choices (Stweart as a mountain man and Fonda as a buffalo hunter). The music is fun though, there are some nice set pieces (train wreck, raft on the rapids, cheyenne attack), but only Ford's short Civil War segment offers any real depth of feeling. His segment is probably the most simply shot of the whole film, but that simplicity contributes to several engaging moments.
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dookobore | 65 39% |
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paris1919 | 65 38% |
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