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How the West Was Won

1962

Henry Hathaway, John Ford ...

Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck ...

7.0

5,802

Western. Adventure. Drama The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal, continue over the prairies from St. Louis during the California gold rush, suffer through the Civil War, and finally help build the railroads on the plains and bring law and justice to the frontier. Along the way they meet mountain men, journey by wagon ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"A grand folly, but lots to love (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	The New York Times	"What's been done by three directors in this nigh onto three-hour-long film is stitch together a mammoth patchwork of Western fiction cliches"	NEG
United States	Variety	"It would be hard to imagine a subject which lends itself more strikingly to the wide-screen process than this yarn of the pioneers who opened the American West"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The main problem remains the impossibility of subjecting a film that is fundamentally about landscape and history to the demands of such a coarse dramatic form."	NEU
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"A massive undertaking at the time, it really is true to say they don't make them like this any more (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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