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How the West Was Won

Name: How the West Was Won
Director: John Ford
Genre: Western
Released: 1962-11-02
Duration: 164 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden

1962 · 2h 44m · Western

IMDb 7.1 Metacritic 56 RT 85%

If you're in the mood for sweeping historical drama with genuine scale and ambition, absolutely watch this tonight—it's a classic epic that earned its 85% RT score for good reason. Just know you're committing to something grand and sprawling rather than intimate, but that's exactly the point of a film called 'How the West Was Won.'

Plot

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.

Director: John Ford

Cast: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden

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