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How the West Was Won

It's here! The mightiest adventure ever filmed!

1962 · G · 2h 44m

Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall

7.0

TMDB audience score
523 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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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

  • George Peppard
    Zeb Rawlings

  • Robert Preston
    Roger Morgan

  • Debbie Reynolds
    Lilith Prescott

  • James Stewart
    Linus Rawlings

  • Eli Wallach
    Charlie Gant

  • John Wayne
    William Sherman

  • Richard Widmark
    Mike King

  • Spencer Tracy
    Narrator (voice)

  • Brigid Bazlen
    Dora Hawkins

  • Walter Brennan
    Jeb Hawkins

  • David Brian
    Lilith's Attorney

  • Andy Devine
    Corporal Peterson