How the West Was Won

Buy This Item How the West Was Won by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $14.98  on 11-26-2008     The first feature film to be photographed and projected in the panoramic three-camera Cinerama process, this epic Western is almost as expansive as the West itself, chronicling a pioneering family's triumphs and tragedies in numerous episodes spanning three generations and a half century of westward movement. Divided into five segments directed by veteran Hollywood filmmakers Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, and the legendary John Ford (and including uncredited sequences directed by Richard Thorpe), the film was one of the most ambitious ever made by the venerable MGM studio. Its stellar cast reads like a virtual who's who of Hollywood's biggest stars. Debbie Reynolds plays a sturdy survivor of many pioneering dangers, and the eventual widow of a gambler (Gregory Peck), who is later reunited with her nephew (George Peppard), a Civil War veteran and cavalryman who heads for San Francisco as the transcontinental railroad is being built. Many more characters and stories are woven throughout this epic film, which is dramatically uneven but totally engrossing with its stunning vistas and countless outdoor locations in Illinois, Kentucky, South Dakota, Monument Valley in Arizona, California, Colorado, and elsewhere. <i>--Jeff Shannon</i> Reader Reviews With Courage . Sinew and Conflict : That's how the West was won . With Three Directors . Five Interlocked stories . Some of the most legendary action scenes in the movie history and constellation of acting talent: that's how the west was won was filmed . Henry Fonda (1905-1982), Gregory Peck (1916-2003) , Debbie Reynolds (1932 - ) , James Stewart (1908-1997), and John Wayne (1907-1979) are among the big name in this big- event saga following a dauntless family's move West through generations- underscored by spectacles of heart-pounding raging river ride , a thunderous bufallo stampede and a bracing runaway train shootout . How The west was won was a box-office winner . High Quality Transfer . Recommended

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