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How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won
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type
Movie
language
English
duration
162 min
genre
western
theme
epic
director
George Marshall
Score
6 / 10

How the West Was Won is a 1962 American Metrocolor epic-western film. The picture was one of the last "old-fashioned" epic films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to enjoy great success. The all-star cast includes Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, and Richard Widmark.

Plot

The film begins with narration by Spencer Tracy as the aerial-borne camera sweeps over the Rocky Mountains. "This land has a name today," says Tracy in the opening lines of the film, "and is marked on maps."

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    award Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay National Film Registry
    contentLocation California
    director George Marshall Henry Hathaway John Ford Richard Thorpe
    editor Harold F. Kress
    genre western
    keywords american civil war arapaho battery rock battle of shiloh betray california gold mine california gold rush cave-in-rock state park central pacific railroad cheyenne civil war covered wagon dance hall disillusion end erie canal family farm four-level downtown freeway interchange four level interchange frontier justice gold mine gold shipment golden gate bridge hoover dam hope lange illinois indian territory isolated kill los angeles lost love love triangle music hall new home ohio river old friend pittsburgh pony express professional gambler raft rapid river river pirate riverboat rock rocky mountains san francisco southern edge state park telegraphy trading post train station train wreck transcontinental telegraph line ulysses s. grant union army union pacific union pacific railroad varmint wagon train want west william tecumseh sherman wound
    musicBy Alfred Newman
    nomination Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
    producer Bernard Smith
    productionCompany Cinerama Releasing Corporation
    publisher Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    recordedAt Alabama Hills Arizona California Colorado Custer State Park Hal Roach Studios Inyo National Forest Uncompahgre National Forest Utah
    theme epic war