How the west was won 1962
How the west was won 1962
How the West Was Won
1962, Western, 2h 44m
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В 1962 году компания «MGM» сняла выпустила амбициозный трёхчасовой вестерн «Как был завоёван Запад». Фильм снимался одновременно тремя камерами в уникальном панорамном формате «Синерама» для демонстрации в специально построенных кинотеатрах. Картина состоит из пяти новелл, три их которых снял Генри Хэтэуэй, по одной – Джон Форд и Джордж Маршалл. Отдельные сцены снял Ричард Торп. В основе сюжета лежит история трёх поколений поселенцев Прескоттов, их борьба с дикой природой, бандитами, индейцами и соотечественниками на полях сражений в войне Севера и Юга. В проекте было задействовано огромное количество звёзд: Спенсер Трейси, Генри Фонда, Грегори Пек, Джеймс Стюарт, Карл Мальден, Эли Уоллах, Джон Уэйн, РИчард Видмарк и др.
Сложнейшее оборудование – соединённые вместе три камеры – практически не позволяло двигать камеру и снимать крупные планы, зато позволяло охватить максимально широким взглядом величественную природу ещё не заселённой Америки. Эпизоды значительно различаются по уровню. Самыми слабыми, с поверхностной актёрской игрой, являются три части Хэтэуэя: «Реки», «Равнины», «Преступники». Правда, в «Преступниках» есть хорошие трюки на движущемся поезде (см. «Генерал»). «Гражданская война» Форда – крепкая, но достаточно короткая и недостаточно выразительная для военного фильма. «Железная дорога» Маршалла – лучшая из трёх новелл, в частности из-за фантастической сцены нападения стада бизонов на лагерь поселенцев. Местную железную дорогу провели по охотничьим угодьям индейцев, вот они и отомстили, погнав стадо на бледнолицых.
«Как был завоёван Запад» – оригинальный по форме экспериментальный проект, не более того. Пример настоящего эпического вестерна – «Дуэль под солнцем», над которым работало, кстати, в два раза большее количество режиссёров.
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I still remember seeing How the West Was Won in Cinerama when it made it into general release back in 1962. A motion picture theater equipped for Cinerama is the only way this one should be seen. The formatted VHS copy I watched tonight can’t come close to doing it justice.
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.
Three of Hollywood’s top directors did parts of this film although the lion’s share by all accounts was done by Henry Hathaway. John Ford did the Civil War sequence and George Marshall the sequence about the railroad.
The Civil War piece featured John Wayne and Harry Morgan in a moment of reflection at the battlefield of Shiloh. Morgan did a first rate job as Grant in his brief cameo and Wayne was playing Sherman for the second time in his career. He’d previously played Sherman in an unbilled cameo on his friend Ward Bond’s Wagon Train series. I’m surprised Wayne never did Sherman in a biographical film, he would have been good casting.
If any of the stars could be said to be THE star of the film it would have to be Debbie Reynolds. She’s in the film almost through out and in the last sequence where as a widow she goes to live with her nephew George Peppard and his family she’s made up as a gray haired old woman and does very well with the aging. Debbie also gets to do a couple of musical numbers, A Home in the Meadow and Raise A Ruckus both blend in well in the story. Debbie’s performance in How the West Was Won must have been the reason she was cast in The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
Cinerama was rarely as effectively employed as in How the West Was Won. I well remember feeling like you were right on the flatboat that the Presscott family was on as they got caught in the Ohio River rapids. The Indian attack and the buffalo stampede were also well done. But the climax involving that running gun battle between peace officers George Peppard and Lee J. Cobb with outlaw Eli Wallach and his gang on a moving train even on a formatted VHS is beyond thrilling.
There is a sequence that was removed and it had to do with Peppard going to live with buffalo hunter Henry Fonda and marrying Hope Lange who was Fonda’s daughter. She dies and Peppard leaves the mountains and then marries Carolyn Jones. Lange’s part was completely left on the cutting room floor. Hopefully there will be a restored version of How the West Was Won, we’ll see Hope Lange and more of Henry Fonda.
And it should be restored. All those Hollywood legends in one exciting film. They really don’t make them like this any more.
«How the West Was Won» is one of only two dramatic feature films made using Cinerama’s three-strip process. 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.
The film, which was based on a series of ‘Life’ magazine articles, traces the fortunes of the Prescott family as they take part in the westward expansion in 19th century America. The story unfolds over several decades and touches on the Gold Rush, the Civil War and other periods in American history. James R. Webb’s screenplay, while more entertaining than historically exhaustive, won him an Oscar.
The cast is about as star-studded a bunch as you’re likely to see anywhere. Where else can you see Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda & John Wayne all in same film? Not to mention Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, Eli Wallach, Richard Widmark, Walter Brennan and others too numerous to mention. Needless to say, the acting is in good hands.
Technically, the film looks quite nice. The Oscar-nominated cinematography is breath-taking and Alfred Newman’s score is top-notch. However, the filming process made for an overabundance of long shots and there are a few instances of rear projection that frankly look bad next to the rest of the picture. Also, while not a fault per se, there are geometric distortions inherent in displaying the curved picture on a flat screen.
Yet, despite its minor imperfections, «How the West Was Won» is an attractive and engaging epic Western. As a history lesson, it’s somewhat superficial but the combination of fine acting and stunning visuals make it well worth your time. Just be sure to pick up the Special Edition or Blu-ray release.
A story as big, as brash, and as exciting as the west itself. You have to hand it to everyone involved, this is one mammoth viewing experience. This covers generations as well as historical events like no other movie has attempted to do. I think the wisest decision was having multiple directors so each time period has a different feeling and vision. There is no denying the spectacle, the adventure, and the romance in How the West Was Won. It really is true to say they don’t make them like this any more.
One of the last great epic movies to come out of MGM that was a roaring success, How the West Was Won still has enough quality about it to warrant high praise. The story that drives the film on was suggested by the series of the same name that featured in «Life» magazine 1959. Narrative is formed around one family, the Prescott’s, who set out on a journey West in 1839. 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.
Filmed in the unique Cinerama format, which in a nutshell is three cameras filming at once to project a fully formed experience for the human eye, the production has an all star cast and four supreme cinematographers aiding the story. To name all the cast would take forever, but in the main all of the major parts were filled by stars who had already headlined a movie previously. The cinematographers are naturally key since such a sprawling story inevitably has sprawling vistas, they come up trumps with some truly special work: William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang Jr. & Joseph LaShelle, four great names who help to make the film a poetic beauty.
As a whole it’s undeniably far from flawless, complaints such as it running out of steam towards the end (the irony of it since a steam train features prominently), and the plot contrivances, are fair enough. However, when the film is good, it’s real good: raft in the rapids, Cheyene attack, buffalo stampede and train robbery, each of them are good enough to be a highlight in separate movies. Even the songs are pleasant, particularly when they revolve around the effervescent Debbie Reynolds, while home format transfers are now finally up to a standard worthy of investment, time and cash wise.
Hard to dislike for a Western fan, and carrying enough about it to lure in the casual viewer, How the West Was Won really is a case of they don’t make them like they used to. 8/10
Ford’s most distinctive work has dealt with the white American’s conquest of the wilderness. 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.
Ford directed one of the episodes of «How the West Was Won,» the Civil War. His brief but redeeming contribution effectively recounted the bloody Battle of Shiloh and its aftermath.
Hathaway’s strong points were atmosphere, character and authentic locations. He directed, in the film, the episodes of ‘The Rivers,’ ‘The Plains,’ and ‘The Outlaws.’
George Marshalthe most prolific and most versatile of all major Hollywood filmmakersdirected the episode of ‘The Railroad.’
As seen through the eyes of four generations of a pioneer family of New England farmers as they made their way west in the l840s, the scope of «How the West Was Won» is enormous, with essays on the physiology of the West (pioneers, settlers, Indians, outlaws, and adventurers).
The film describes the hard life and times of the Prescott’s family across the continent and their fortune to the western shore after years of hardship, loss, love, war, danger and romance.
Stewart appears in the first half hour as a trapper named Linus Rawlings, who marries the daughter (Carroll Baker) of a family migrating West
The story touched all the bases: runaway wagon trains; Indians stampeding Buffalos; confused and erratic river rapids; the grandeur of Monument Valley, Utah; the rocky mountains; the Black Hills of South Dakota; the clamor of gold in St.Louis; the Cheyenne attack; the Pony Express; the overland telegraph; the coming of the steel roadway of the iron horse; the bloody battle between cattlemen and homesteaders; and some thrilling hand-to-hand fighting
The result is a stupendous epic Western with 8 Academy Award Nominations including Best Picture and three Academy Awards including Best Original Story and Screenplay; Best Soundand Best Film Editing.
Narrated by Spencer Tracy, «How the West Was Won» enlists the services of such top stars as: Carroll Baker, the strong-minded woman; Gregory Peck, the luckiest gambler; Debbie Reynolds, the perplexing talented singer and dancer; Henry Fonda, the buffalo hunter with gray flowing hair and mustaches; George Peppard, the man with a star; Robert Preston, the decent character with moral flaws; Thelma Ritter, the character woman; Karl Malden, the patriarch; Agnes Moorehead, the unfortunate wife and mother; John Wayne, the major architect of modern warfare; Richard Widmark, the ‘king’ of the railroad; Russ Tamblyn the Confederate deserter; Andy Levine, the Corporal Ohio volunteer; Lee J. Cobb, the lawman; Carolyn Jones, the worried wife; Eli Wallach, the dangerous outlaw; Rodolfo Acosta, the train robber; Raymond Massey, the great Abraham Lincoln; Walter Brennan and Lee Van Cleef, the thieves to fear
Alfred Newman and Ken Darby’s majestic music takes the pioneers through every conceivable encounter in the West, achieving with conviction a whole constellation of magnificent spectacle.
This is an fashion western of a multi-generational Prescott family encompassing every stereotype as America settles the west. The Prescott family is heading west starting from the Eerie canal. They encounter pirates and a fur trader Linus Rawlings (James Stewart). It’s a good start, but the leads keep changing.
Instead of following Jimmy Stewart and Carroll Baker all the way through, it switches to Debbie Reynolds and Gregory Peck as they go to California. On the way, they have an old fashion settlers and Indians shoot out. Then we switch back to Carroll Baker and George Peppard as the Civil War gets started. And it keeps going with different lead actors until the closing flyover of a Californian freeway.
There is something very superficial about all of this. It’s like a high school history textbook being fitted into a western movie. There are big action scenes. There are big named actors. Maybe there are too many big names. The time span is too long, and the endeavor too grand. It tries to say so much that it ends up saying very little of value.
As a seven year old boy who adored history, I was brought by my mother to see this in Cinemascope on a huge screen. Anyone who has seen this can just imagine the impact.
— the astonishing speech by the Richard Widmark character after the buffalo stampede has killed so many,
— the wonderfully written emotional scenes whenever Debbie Reynolds was dealing with either Robert Preston’s clumsy attempt at courtship («why with hips like yours, having children would be as easy as rolling off a log») or her own love for the roguish Gregory Peck,
— the George Peppard family (with the wonderful Carolyn Jones and Debbie Reynolds) singing Greensleaves as the movie nears its end,
— and the astonishing scene of the West transformed into cloverleaf highways and overpasses after we’ve been watching a deserted West for several hours.
Not too many years would pass before movie makers would be telling audiences that the settlement of the West was a triumph of vicious villains, charlatans, cynics and fast-buck artists in movies like McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Soldier Blue, Little Big Man, The Wild Bunch.
But I’m deeply grateful that I was old enough to see how the West was won in a movie like this.
I have loved this movie since I saw its original theatrical release. The new (2009) DVD release finally does it justice. Digital stitching technology has made the 3-part Cinerama image almost literally seamless. In fact there is less distortion where the frames meet than there was in the original theatrical screening. And for the first time in a video release the full width of the Cinerama screen has been captured. About a third of each of the two side images was missing in previous video versions. This version is so wide that a wide-screen HDTV still requires black bars at top and bottom to fit the image on the screen.
Yes, there are moments we wish we could re-write, such as the narrator’s reference to «primitive» people. This is balanced, however, by an unusually fair (for the time) treatment of the plight of the plains Indians. The movie holds up remarkably well, thanks to a well- written script and strong performances by a large A-list cast. With the exception of a scene in which Debbie Reynolds breaks into a song-and- dance number in a wagon-train encampment (the excuse being that her character is a singer) there is almost nothing that betrays the era when the film was made. Well, there is the fact that most of the cast members are long dead.
As a professional historian, I have to say that the almost complete absence of reference to specific historical events (except the battle of Shiloh) is part of the secret of the film’s success. This is a movie that captures the myth of the American west, a myth that is still alive and powerful.
This movie was made for the biggest screen ever, prior to the Imax era. The absence of true close-up shots (a limitation of the Cinerama process) is more noticeable on a smaller screen. It deserves to be seen on the biggest wide-screen TV you can find. And it does deserve to be seen.
I am a truly big fan of a good western, and not so much an enthusiastic fan of a musical themed western but «How the West Was Won» combined an all star cast of veterans such as Karl Malden, James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, George Peppard and the always nasty screen villain Eli Wallach with just the right mix of a very boisterous and cantankerous singing Debbie Reynolds which made this 164 minute film a memorable western classic.
This film is the way all great and classic films should be made with a grand musical score opening the film, another musical score to allow for a short break/interlude at the mid-point of the film, and to close with a memorable music score as this great western film classic ended with.
Yes, this film depicts the struggles of four generations of the Prescott family as they travel by make shift rafts, horse and buggy, wagon trains, and the earliest designs of locomotive engines on freshly laid railroad tracks. The four generations of the Prescott family fought Indians, the U.S. Civil war, gunslingers, bandidos and corrupt businessmen, and what the viewer is left with by the end of the film is a good reminder of what many of our own families predecessors endured to allow us to live a good life that we live today.
How the West Was Won combined the experience of four directors of which one director managed the films musical scores and the other three directors basically directed one generation of the Prescott families life until the story line was passed on to the next generation of the Prescott family.
Although the films length at 144 minutes is approximately one hour longer than most feature length films, I for one would have gladly paid a premium to have been able to see this film in one of the classic movie theaters on the large panoramic movie screens that were ever present in all large cities and even in smaller towns during the 1960’s era before VHS/DVD/BluRay/HBO/NetFlix/streaming swallowed up the now long forgotten true movie fans atmosphere of the physical movie film theaters. Don’t even get me started on how limited the availability of the Drive-In theaters are lacking today.
I digress, but there is a parallel that I draw from the pioneers such as the four generations of the Prescott family depicted in How the West was Won and our waning film industry. It now seems to encourage rather than discourage the flagrant pirating of film producers intellectual property and the ridiculous costs associated with the more simple and in my opinion cartoonish CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) so-called action/adventure films that are so popular at the box office today. As the buffalo and native Indians disappeared from the western prairies and plain fields, so too will great films such as How the West was Won, so take the time and enjoy their simplistic but more factual story lines because in a few decades the art of film making may be lost to future generations and replaced with films based on CGI games like Donkey Kong.
I rate How the West Was Won a 9 out of 10 rating and I hope that future generations will grow to appreciate the picture quality and the history of the great old western for what it was intended.
Rolling, rolling, rolling, ♬♪♩ keep those wagons’ rolling ♬♪♩ rawhide.
I was never a big fan of the West. I always figured it was some sort of ancestral thing. I mean, seriously, how interesting can Westerns be? Think of some of the key elements of the Western setting: desolate deserts; near poor living environments, unless you were rich; railroads and trains. That doesn’t sound very interesting, does it? However, the West usually offers very grim and destructive characters, whose lives and actions are very captivating for audiences. The West itself is stark as an environment. The West is infamous.
How The West Was Won is a 1962 epic film about the Westward expansion that occurred in the United States in the 19th Century. It follows the Prescott family, from their humble roots in the Erie Canal, all the way to their eventual settlement in the West. The film covers many different aspects of the West. It includes historical events such as the Gold Rush in California, the Civil War, and the laying of the railroads in that part of the land. It also includes trademark icons of Western life, such as struggle with Native Americans, travelling in wagons and outlawed gangs. It is very much the quintessential experience of the West in film format.
How The West Was Won uses an interesting technique for filming called Cinerama. It is basically style of shooting a film using three cameras at the same time. It creates a very wide aspect ratio, where your peripheral vision is intended to be engulfed by on-screen content. It is sort of like a «surround vision.» I unfortunately can not tell you what it is like to see the film in its intended manner. There are only supposed to be a handful of theaters that are capable of presenting it this way, and I was only able to see the Blu-Ray version of the film. On this version, you can watch it with a wrap-around effect, or the regular 2.89:1 letterbox version.
What results is a very fascinating experience. I, personally, am a huge fan of wide aspect ratio shots. Rarely do films employ such a technique. I was very, very impressed and excited by what I found in How The West Was Won. There are many shots that show an entire landscape, and most of the time there is a character or object in the center, so as to keep the focus on it. It is interesting that in real life, our vision is not as wide, but giving it such a look can paint a very pretty picture. Along with the breathtaking landscape shots, there are many shots where you see a group of people conversing in the middle, but you never lose sight of the environment around them. Giving the fact that it was originally presented with the wrap-around screen, this must have contributed greatly to ambiance. How The West Was Won is a very well shot film.
Unfortunately, it does not use these techniques all of the time. There are many scenes in the film that solely rely on the use of dialogue and story. Not only is there very little to see, but the Cinerama technology is pretty much wasted here. These scenes are usually near the middle and towards the very end of the movie. Granted, maybe there wasn’t enough open air around them, but I still think that more could have been done with the three cameras in these scenes.
How The West Was Won is a very good film. Going into this, I was thinking, «oh great, another Western film, and this one is very long, this is not going to be that enjoyable.» I was wrong. It is a very entertaining film. Although it is really not that long at all, it definitely feels very long. I guess that this is a compliment, so as to say that they achieved the «epic» feel that they were going for. However, by the end of it, I was feeling a little tired. But I won’t count that against the film, especially since it does offer an intermission. The use of the Cinerama technology, even though it is wasted at times, is very impressive. I wish that more films used this technology. One scene that I loved, was the outro, or ending sequence. Spending what seemed like 50 years in the West, seeing the developments of people out there, only to finish it off with a modern day fly-by of San Francisco was amazing. Very good way to finish off this film and send audiences off into the world again. How The West Was Won definitely won over my attention.
Watching a letterboxed version of «How the West Was Won,» I noticed the dividing lines on the screen, and it was clear that much of the picture was still missing even in this format. But neither hindered my enjoyment of this sprawling epic, even if James R. Webb’s Oscar winning screenplay left something to be desired. Alfred Newman’s music score is terrific, and so is that all-star cast. Unlike those disaster flicks of the 70s like «The Poseidon Adventure» and «The Towering Inferno» that claimed to be stuffed with stars but actually boasted «names» (usually familiar performers, primarily from TV, who rarely headlined a first class feature), «How the West Was Won» has the genuine article. John Wayne, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Carroll Baker, and Debbie Reynolds may mean little at the ticket windows of the 90s (and many of them are dead, anyway), but all were above the title stars who carried their own films at the box-office in the early 60s.
Three directors helmed this project but I’d be hard pressed to distinguish whether John Ford, George Marshall or Henry Hathaway were behind the camera during any particular episode if the opening credits didn’t identify each segment and its director. I suppose «How the West Was Won» is more quantity than quality, but it’s entertaining overall.
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Повествование этой кинокартины начинается с 1830-го года, с момента прибытия семьи переселенцев из Европы в Америку. Перед зрителями проходит жизнь первых поколений переселенцев, на плечи которых легло нелегкое бремя освоения Дикого запада. Под руководством четырех ведущих режиссеров США целое созвездие актеров воплотили на экране пятьдесят трудных и интересных лет жизни одной семьи переселенцев.Фильм основан на серии тематических статей опубликованных в журнале Life 1959 году.
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