How the West Was Won (1962)

7.0/10 • 164 min • Western Action

Overview

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.

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

Raymond Massey

Abraham Lincoln

Agnes Moorehead

Rebecca Prescott

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