Top billed cast

1. 

   Carroll Baker

   Eve Prescott Rawlings

2. 

   Lee J. Cobb

   Marshal Lou Ramsey

3. 

   Henry Fonda

   Jethro Stuart

4. 

   Carolyn Jones

   Julie Rawlings

5. 

   Karl Malden

   Zebulon Prescott

6. 

   Gregory Peck

   Cleve Van Valen

7. 

   George Peppard

   Zeb Rawlings

8. 

   Robert Preston

   Roger Morgan

9. 

   Debbie Reynolds

   Lilith Prescott

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2021-04-14

_**Unique, entertaining all-star Western epic comprised of vignettes is a mixed bag**_

Released in 1962-63 and written by James Webb, "How the West was Won" is an epic Hollywood Western covering fifty years between 1839-1889 focusing on the Prescott family's move West and narrated by Spencer Tracy. This is a history lesson amped up with melodrama, romance, adventure, violence and song & dance.

The film was done in Cinerama, which was a short-lived cinematic experiment involving three synchronized projectors and a huge curved screen. Only one other film with a traditional story line utili...read the rest

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4. Maverick69%
5. Boss Nigger66%
6. The White Buffalo59%
7. Nevada Smith67%
8. Geronimo: An American Legend62%
9. Rooster Cogburn64%
10. The Outlaw Josey Wales74%
11. Shanghai Noon64%
12. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance78%
13. Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier64%
14. Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure62%
15. Rust67%
16. 100 Rifles59%
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18. Open Range72%
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$15,000,000.00

Revenue
$76,729.00

Keywords

• river
• settler
• native american
• caravan
• outlaw
• frontier
• colonisation
• family
• riverboat
• usa history
• 3-strip cinerama