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How the West Was Won (1962)

Western | 162 minutes
3,24 252 votes

Genre: Western / War

Duration: 162 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall

Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda and James Stewart

IMDb score: 7,1 (23.907)

Releasedate: 1 October 1962

How the West Was Won plot

"It's here! The mightiest adventure ever filmed!"

The film tells the story of the expansion of the United States westward, told from the perspective of one of the pioneer families. Zebulon Prescott takes his family from New York in the early 1800s. His children and grandchildren eventually reach the West Coast after years of war and other misery.

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Eve Prescott Rawlings

Marshal Lou Ramsey

Jethro Stuart

Julie Rawlings

Zebulon Prescott

Cleve Van Valen

Zeb Rawlings

Roger Morgan

Lily Prescott

Linus Rawlings

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LuukRamaker

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I had a great time with this movie. The reputation the film has here on MovieMeter at least made one suspect worse. At first I had to get used to Karl Maden and Tudor Owen serving as heads of their family. After all, I had never seen gnome plop without a hat.

There is, of course, nothing wrong with acting. How could it be otherwise with such a star cast. However, this doesn't quite save the film. The film went a bit too much for me, so I couldn't always keep the sisters apart, for example.

It took me a while to recognize Henry Fonda with his mustache and long hair. When I realized it was him, his screen time was almost up.

A nice scene is the one in which hundreds of buffalo destroy a 'village'. I have rarely seen so many buffalo together (in a movie).

"That? That ain't crying. That's just new life going on."

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Duke Nukem

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Perhaps the best thing about this film is Alfred Newman's legendary title song. For the rest, many familiar faces in a rather dated film that reminds me a bit of the (much nicer) Centennial series.

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Spoon

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I would only recommend this film to lovers of the history of film technique. Came across to me as Avatar: mechanical innovation as hook without the foundation of a solid script. Also always hear that the first sound films were worse than the adult silent films of the same period. It is possible that technological progress will first cause a dip. The fact that this film seems to have all the dialogue recorded in the studio afterwards doesn't help either. This, in combination with the fragmented structure noted here several times, the panoramas in which the actors drown, lack of interesting main characters, not enough built-up battle climax, etc. makes watching How the West Was Won an unpleasant experience. (I did enjoy the striking James Stewart impression.)

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