How the West Was Won (Special Edition) (Blu-ray) G

How the West Was Won (Special Edition) (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: G
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 26, 2008
  • Originally Released: 1962
  • Label: Warner Home Video

Performers, Cast and Crew:

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1963 - Best Film Editing: Harold F. Kress
Academy Awards 1963 - Best Original Screenplay: James R. Webb
Academy Awards 1963 - Best Sound: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 9,768
4 stars out of 5 -- [A]n epic western of staggering scale and ambition....The buffalo stampede is a pummelling experience on the small screen; writ large, it must have been terrifying.
Total Film
Dec 1, 2008
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Delivered big with breathtaking location work and an all-star cast... Full Review
Groucho Reviews
Sep 10, 2008
Rating: 6/10 -- There is no denying the spectacle, the adventure, and the romance in How the West Was Won. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Sep 8, 2008
It should be called "How the West Was Done-to Death." Full Review
New York Times
May 9, 2005
Rating: 5/5 -- Immense, sprawling western epic loaded with great stars, acting, music, direction.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Mar 2, 2008
Rating: C+ -- Though boasting the innovative technology of Cinerama, this anthology of the Old West is too long, often tedius, and only occasionally pleasurable. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Feb 28, 2008
[T]he open-air sequences...with their unmoving camera, long-shot compositions and rootedness in the rural landscape, recall the work of the American pioneer D.W. Griffith.
New York Times
Sep 8, 2008

Product Description:

Hollywood's most celebrated luminaries--behind the camera as well as in front of it--combined talents to present this 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. The film, divided into three chapters--"The Civil War" (directed by John Ford), "The Railroad" (directed by George Marshall), and "The River, the Plains, the Outlaws" (directed by Henry Hathaway)--tells the story of the Prescotts, a spirited group of easterners who make a declaration to migrate west. When their parents are lost in a tragic river accident, Eve (Carroll Baker) and Lilith (Debbie Reynolds) go their separate ways. Eve remains on the land that took her parents, settling down with the well-intentioned Linus Rawlings (James Stewart), while Lilith becomes a singer who is courted by the conniving Cleve Van Valen (Gregory Peck) when he learns that she has inherited a fortune in California. As time passes and the Civil War takes the life of Linus, the newest generation of Prescott offspring struggles with even greater danger and loss, in the form of fierce Indians as well as family archrivals. Top-notch production values and an endless string of solid performances have earned HOW THE WEST WAS WON the well-deserved label as one of Hollywood's most revered classics.

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