The gimmick being one of the first non-documentary films made in Cinerama. 17 out of 17 found this helpful. Was this review helpful?
45 out of 58 found this helpful. I still get a tear when Eve lets her son Zeb leave for the war.
), the too-long running time, the weak characters for major actors, on and on.
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How The West Was Won is a very good film. And yes, I embrace it for holding to a perspective that today's PC revisionists who see evil in everything associated with the rise of America as a great nation are always so quick to condemn.
I have loved this movie since I saw its original theatrical release. "How the West Was Won" is really quite an amazing achievement.
Alfred Newman's music score is terrific, and so is that all-star cast.
62 out of 118 found this helpful. Honorable mention: a dreamy Debbie Reynolds.
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This movie has made a life-long impression on me from the time I saw it at the age of 10 until this day (over 40 years).
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Again the phrase once in a lifetime cast could have been invented for this film with a star of some magnitude in almost every role, all of whom give good performances. About a third of each of the two side images was missing in previous video versions. The buffalo came charging down the hill but when they saw the I recently found the whole movie soundtrack on a double CD set that is really incredible. Was this review helpful? I found the love scenes between Eve and Linus the most romantic I'd ever witnessed and to this day, it still gives me goose bumps. liked the free food they were getting.
"So we sent to Hollywood and got a lot of cowboys and stuntmen and 6 out of 8 found this helpful.
As a family of Western settlers from the 1830s to the 1880s , beginning with their voyage on The Eerie Canal and going on to encompass a Civil War battle and other happenings .
35 out of 49 found this helpful. 1983)That "great moment" almost never happened as Joe LaShelle
Anyone who has seen this can just imagine the impact. I have not been fortunate to view this film in its original Cinerama format, but I have seen various prints of it over the years, and have recently watched the newly released DVD version. From a small moving mass at the horizon, they come looming down to fill the whole screen with a great, gray, shaggy blur. They had about 200 of them in an enclosed valley where they were
go through that camp, they went
They went above and beyond and they pulled it off.
out of the way of the buffalo while actually herding them so they would go through the
Sure, this is Wild West history as seen by the victors - but what a story! Shot on a massive scope this is enjoyable in any form but if you have the opportunity to see the Blu-Ray version on a large screen that's as near to ideal as you'll get.
fixed them up as Indians.
This places it comfortably inside my top 20 all time Westerns, although my project is far from complete.
The music is probably one of the greatest movie scores ever and is played through the overture, intermission, exit music and title sequence. Film,s that lasted several hours full of episodic structure with big names playing the characters .
He has made films about most of the significant episodes in American historyearly colonization of the West, the Civil War, the extermination of the Indiansand in so doing he has recounted the American saga in human terms and made it come alive... 3 out of 3 found this helpful. "For a long time we just sat there discussing how many weeks it Seating was fine (it's reserved, so you know ahead where you'll be.
They wanted to make an epic western with huge action scenes and an all-star cast. Narrative is formed around one family, the Prescott's, who set out on a journey West in 1839.
I guess they didn't know about buffalo because they stayed real
And let me tell you, when they started to
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The formatted VHS copy I watched tonight can't come close to doing it justice.
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Was this review helpful? 6 out of 8 found this helpful. But the screenplay, and even some of the acting is so ridiculous that the gimmick can't pay off.
"We had Indian riders who had to look like they were trying to get Loaded with many favorite stars James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, George Peppard, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Widmark, Robert Preston, Eli Wallach, Brigid Bazlen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn, Spencer Tracy ...Narrated by (voice)
Was this review helpful? "We thought that once we shot the buffalo coming down, they're And when she drops to her knees, praying at her father's grave, it's simply heart-wrenching. 19 out of 27 found this helpful. remembers. They and their offspring fill out five segments of film that are directed by three different men, "The Rivers", "The Plains" & "The Outlaws" is under the guidance of Henry Hathaway, and "The Civil War" by John Ford and "The Railroad" by George Marshall. Watching the film on home video represents a compromise but Warner's latest edition offers as good a presentation as you're likely to see outside of a Cinerama theatre.
25 out of 28 found this helpful. 98 out of 132 found this helpful. It did very well in my ranking system, accumulating 17 points. Everybody just about They went around in a big circle and I don't think we lost a one. This film is what the movies are all about. died.
I'm not a fan of westerns in particular, but this magnificent epic is an exception for me because it has all the wonderful elements of a sprawling historical epic that only Hollywood could do so wonderfully in the 50s and 60s. Was this review helpful? It contains extensive tracks not heard on the original album and is absolutely a must for any HTWWW fan.
I only wish I was old enough to see this movie in its full Cinerama glory. The stampede lasts forever.