In 1962 and under the spectacular support of the cinerama four directors take part to pay homage to the classic western in an epic about a family (Preston) that arrives from the east of America to the West of the nation to start a new life...
The story covers up to the beginning of the fourth generation of the aforementioned family?
The four directors of that colossal production were Georges Marshall, John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and Richard Thorpe....
Leading the cast were such genre pros as James Stewart and Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark....
The girls in the film were Carroll Baker and Debbie Reynolds, the latter as the longest-lived character in this beautiful apology of the western...
The sequence of the raft crossing the river is truly spectacular, taking full advantage of the virtues of the huge screen of that triple camera photographic system, which soon became much more practical with the similar, but single camera, 70m/m. . .
Three Oscars: Sound, Editing and Original Screenplay, in addition to five other nominations including Best Picture and Best Soundtrack by several composers, among which the great Alfred Newman stood out...
Curiously, what corresponds to John Ford turns out to be the least interesting (because it is a bit boring) of "How the West Was Won", during its almost three hours of footage...
A resounding box-office success that, at least, tripled in its premiere the more than 14,000,000 dollars of the budget invested in its production...