La conquista del Oeste

Título original: How the West Was Won

1962
7
2h 44min

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Una saga familiar que abarca varias décadas de expansión hacia el Oeste en el siglo XIX, incluyendo la fiebre del oro, la guerra de Secesión y la construcción del ferrocarril.Una saga familiar que abarca varias décadas de expansión hacia el Oeste en el siglo XIX, incluyendo la fiebre del oro, la guerra de Secesión y la construcción del ferrocarril.Una saga familiar que abarca varias décadas de expansión hacia el Oeste en el siglo XIX, incluyendo la fiebre del oro, la guerra de Secesión y la construcción del ferrocarril.

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Ganó 3 premios Óscar
- 10 premios y 5 nominaciones en total

Curiosidades
During filming in June 1961, Karl Malden had to be rushed to hospital to have an emergency appendectomy.

Pifias
There is no explanation of why Sheriff Ramsey is fine in one scene and wearing a bandage on his forehead in the next, immediately following. (There was a deleted or unfilmed scene where Zeb knocked Ramsey out when the Sheriff tried to stop him from going after the train robbers.)

Citas
Narrator: The west was won by its pioneers, settlers, adventurers is long gone now. Yet it is theirs forever, for they left tracks in history that will never be eroded by wind or rain - never plowed under by tractors, never buried in compost of events. Out of the hard simplicity of their lives, out of their vitality, of their hopes and sorrows grew legends of courage and pride to inspire their children and their children's children. From soil enriched by their blood, out of their fever to explore and be, came lakes where once there were burning deserts - came the goods of the earth; mine and wheat fields, orchards and great lumber mills. All the sinews of a growing country. Out of their rude settlements, their trading posts came cities to rank among the great ones of the world. All the heritage of a people free to dream, free to act, free to mold their own destiny.
[final narrative from the film "How The West Was Won"1962 - narrated by Spencer Tracy]

Créditos adicionales
Opening credits: Except for historical events and characters, the events and characters depicted in this photoplay are fictitious and any similarity to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

Versiones alternativas
Some prints (like the Swedish pan&scan video release) leave out the final modern travelogue scenes.

Conexiones
Edited from Esto es Cinerama (1952)

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How the West Was Won
(1962)
Music by Alfred Newman
Lyrics by Ken Darby
Performed by Ken Darby (uncredited)

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More quantity than quality, but a truly all-star cast

Watching a letterboxed version of "How the West Was Won," I noticed the dividing lines on the screen, and it was clear that much of the picture was still missing even in this format. But neither hindered my enjoyment of this sprawling epic, even if James R. Webb's Oscar winning screenplay left something to be desired. Alfred Newman's music score is terrific, and so is that all-star cast. Unlike those disaster flicks of the 70s like "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno" that claimed to be stuffed with stars but actually boasted "names" (usually familiar performers, primarily from TV, who rarely headlined a first class feature), "How the West Was Won" has the genuine article. John Wayne, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Carroll Baker, and Debbie Reynolds may mean little at the ticket windows of the 90s (and many of them are dead, anyway), but all were above the title stars who carried their own films at the box-office in the early 60s.

Three directors helmed this project but I'd be hard pressed to distinguish whether John Ford, George Marshall or Henry Hathaway were behind the camera during any particular episode if the opening credits didn't identify each segment and its director. I suppose "How the West Was Won" is more quantity than quality, but it's entertaining overall.