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| Actors: George Peppard, Debbie Reynolds, Jimmy Stewart, Carroll Baker, Gregory Peck
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (102 reviews)
Sales Rank: 971
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Surround Sound, Restored
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: Blu-ray
Running Time: 164 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARBR39748
UPC: 883929026272
EAN: 0883929026272
ASIN: B0018O50VQ
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
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Description
With courage, sinew and conflict: that?s how the West was won. With three directors, five interlocked stories, some of movie history?s most legendary action scenes and a constellation of acting talent: that?s how How the West Was Won was filmed. Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart and John Wayne are among the big names in this big saga following a family?s move West through generations ? marked by the spectacles of a heart-pounding raging river ride, a thunderous buffalo stampede and a bracing runaway train shootout. Via technological advances, this panoramic winner of three Academy Awards can now be seen with a resplendent, restored clarity eliminating its original "three- panel join lines" and in roof-raising Dolby 5.1 audio. Westward ho!
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The first feature film to be photographed and projected in the panoramic three-camera Cinerama process, this epic Western is almost as expansive as the West itself, chronicling a pioneering family's triumphs and tragedies in numerous episodes spanning three generations and a half century of westward movement. Divided into five segments directed by veteran Hollywood filmmakers Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, and the legendary John Ford (and including uncredited sequences directed by Richard Thorpe), the film was one of the most ambitious ever made by the venerable MGM studio. Its stellar cast reads like a virtual who's who of Hollywood's biggest stars. Debbie Reynolds plays a sturdy survivor of many pioneering dangers, and the eventual widow of a gambler (Gregory Peck), who is later reunited with her nephew (George Peppard), a Civil War veteran and cavalryman who heads for San Francisco as the transcontinental railroad is being built. Many more characters and stories are woven throughout this epic film, which is dramatically uneven but totally engrossing with its stunning vistas and countless outdoor locations in Illinois, Kentucky, South Dakota, Monument Valley in Arizona, California, Colorado, and elsewhere. --Jeff Shannon
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 Great November 17, 2008
WoW! True color and watching in Blu ray is so much better. Great Movie, with lots of stars. Love it
Spectacular! November 13, 2008
Wonderful video and audio; better than any previous showing I have witnessed, including the original roadshow. Smilebox version does an amazing job of imitating Cinerama and is addictive; outstanding job by technicians of minimizing three-camera lines and cleaning audio. A fun movie with an excellent cast and breathtaking cinematography. A genuine must own. I look forward to future Smilebox releases.
how the west won me November 13, 2008
All star cast, Panoramic display [nothing ever this big], great story line , camera work and acting!
A Wow Of A Blue Ray October 29, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Three cheers are much in order for Warner Home Video with their release of this superb Blue Ray issue of "How The West was Won".
Firstly the five star rating adjudged this disc is NOT for the movie - which I think we all agree is something of a flawed epic western - but
for the quite amazing presentation of the film this time round on Blue Ray. Virtually gone are the once irritating panel lines that were left by the filming with three cameras and we now have a Blue Ray version of the movie that is nothing short of stunning. With extremely well defined and sharp as a button images, pluperfect colour resolution and great sound (Alfred Newman's score comes across with dynamic clarity) the entire visual experience is something to behold.
The first disc presents the movie in a terrific 2.35 widescreen version
with excellent extras that includes a film giving us the history of
Cinerama and how the public responded to its introduction in the early fifties. Also there are some great clips from the first Cinerama picture "This Is Cinerama" (1953) presented by Cinerama pioneer Lowell Thomas.
But it is disc two that really takes the biscuit! Here we get a "smile box" version of the complete movie. This is the "wrap around" totally curved format of the film which simulates the cinema Cinerama viewing experience. And by simply moving your seat closer to your TV (the greater your TV screen the greater the effect) you can well imagine watching the movie in your local Cinerama theatre. And it also makes a great fun demo.to show off to your friends!
Amazingly this unique presentation - with all its technical brilliance actually makes the movie better than it really is!
GO FETCH!! Hip, Hip................
Compre agora! October 22, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Portuguese review:
Para quem gosta de classicos e ainda de westerns que fizeram historia, este disco e imperdivel por tres razoes, no minimo: a imagem esta impecavel, a versao em tela cinerama e super charmosa e tudo, inclusive os extras, esta legendado em bom portugues brasileiro e de Portugal. E isso!
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