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Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 05/08/2023
"How the West Was Won," a delectable Thanksgiving feast of a western, paints an episodic mural of the New Frontier with fables full of all the tropes, characters, and set pieces that audiences watch and love westerns for.
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1/4
dukeakasmudge - wrote on 09/28/2011
Good movie but very long.I fell asleep after awhile
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3/4
TheWolf - wrote on 08/20/2007
James R. Webb's original screenplay for the screen won an Oscar in 1962 and it involves an episodic account of the Presscott family and their contribution to settling the American west in the 19th century. We first meet the Presscotts, Karl Malden and Agnes Moorehead going west on the Erie Canal and later by flatboat on the Ohio River. They have two daughters, dreamy romantic Carroll Baker and feisty Debbie Reynolds. The girls meet and marry mountain man James Stewart and gambler Gregory Peck eventually and their adventures and those of their children are what make up the plot of How the West Was Won. This was the first film recorded in Cinerama that is not a documentary.
