Story Line
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.
“It's here! The mightiest adventure ever filmed!”
Top Cast
Carroll Baker
Eve Prescott Rawlings
Lee J. Cobb
Marshal Lou Ramsey
Henry Fonda
Jethro Stuart
Carolyn Jones
Julie Rawlings
Karl Malden
Zebulon Prescott
Gregory Peck
Cleve Van Valen
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Rating
7.0/ 10
Release Date
1962-11-02
Runtime
2h 44m
Genres
WesternAction
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
9/10
•5/4/2017Bound for the promised land, indeed.
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...
Wuchak
7/10
•4/14/2021_**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 Presco...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•1/23/2023It's almost impossible to imagine how anyone could have amassed such a complete complement of Hollywood A-listers (both in front of, and behind, the camera) to make this epic tale of the pioneering American spirit in the 19th century. From the openin...