How the West Was Won(Movie, 1962)

Name: How the West Was Won
Genre: Western
Released: 1962
Duration: T02:42:00
Rating: 3.5

| 2h 42min | Genre: Western

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 179 votes)

How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway (who directs three out of the five chapters involving the same family), John Ford and George Marshall, produced by Bernard Smith, written by James R. Webb, and narrated by Spencer Tracy. Originally filmed in true three-lens Cinerama with the according three-panel panorama projected onto an enormous curved screen, the film features an ensemble cast formed by many cinema icons and newcomers, including (in alphabetical order) Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, ()

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Available languages: English
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Available languages: English
Available subtitles: English
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Duration: 2h 32min

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Awards & Nominations for How the West Was Won

Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for Best Sound National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Film Editing nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nominated for: Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture nominated for: Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Score nominated for: Academy Award for Best Sound

About How the West Was Won

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: California, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Alabama Hills (California), Hal Roach Studios, Custer State Park, Uncompahgre National Forest, Inyo National Forest

Plays in: California

Made by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)

Translated into 24 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 02/20/1963 (World premiere: 10/01/1962)

Appearing Characters: Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Abraham Lincoln

Cast: 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, Richard Widmark, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Andy Devine, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn, Spencer Tracy, Brigid Bazlen, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Lambert, James Griffith, Jay C. Flippen, Lee Van Cleef, Rodolfo Acosta, Willis Bouchey, Ken Curtis, Cliff Osmond, Gene Roth, Karl Swenson, Roy Jenson, Joe Sawyer, Chuck Roberson, William "Bill" Henry, Jack Pennick, Carleton Young, Walter Reed, John Larch, Clinton Sundberg, Tudor Owen

Narrator: Spencer Tracy

Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe

Producer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Bernard Smith

Screenwriter: James R. Webb, John Gay

Film Editor: Harold F. Kress

Director of Photography: William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Joseph LaShelle

Composer: Alfred Newman

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Das war der wilde Westen"

"La conquista del Oeste"

"서부 개척사"

"A Conquista do Oeste"

Keywords: outlaw, native american, epic, colonisation, caravan, frontier, river, settler, family, riverboat

Budget: 15,000,000 USD

Revenue: 50,000,000 USD (= 333%)

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How the West Was Won(Movie, 1962)

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