How the West Was Won
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11/2/1962Runtime
164 minsGenres
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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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A grand, panoramic journey through generations of American frontier expansion, told with the sweep and spectacle of classic Hollywood. It's a film that luxuriates in its scale and ambition, following one family's fortunes across nearly a century of westward expansion and nation-building.
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Debbie Reynolds
Lilith Prescott
George Peppard
Zeb Rawlings
Carroll Baker
Eve Prescott Rawlings
James Stewart
Linus Rawlings
Gregory Peck
Cleve Van Valen
Karl Malden
Zebulon Prescott
Robert Preston
Roger Morgan
Henry Fonda
Jethro Stuart
Richard Widmark
Mike King
Carolyn Jones
Julie Rawlings
Agnes Moorehead
Rebecca Prescott
Lee J. Cobb
Marshal Lou Ramsey
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