Avventura di una famiglia americana durante la colonizzazione del selvaggio ovest nell'arco di tre generazioni. C'è tutto; gli indiani, i fuorilegge, la guerra civile e la costruzione della ... Leggi tuttoAvventura di una famiglia americana durante la colonizzazione del selvaggio ovest nell'arco di tre generazioni. C'è tutto; gli indiani, i fuorilegge, la guerra civile e la costruzione della ferrovia.Avventura di una famiglia americana durante la colonizzazione del selvaggio ovest nell'arco di tre generazioni. C'è tutto; gli indiani, i fuorilegge, la guerra civile e la costruzione della ferrovia.
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- QuizDuring filming in June 1961, Karl Malden had to be rushed to hospital to have an emergency appendectomy.
- BlooperThere 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.)
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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]
- Curiosità sui creditiOpening 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.
- Versioni alternativeSome prints (like the Swedish pan&scan video release) leave out the final modern travelogue scenes.
- ConnessioniEdited from This Is Cinerama (1952)
- Colonne sonoreHow the West Was Won
(1962)
Music by Alfred Newman
Lyrics by Ken Darby
Performed by Ken Darby (uncredited)
There has always been a healthy dispute about what historical developments most influenced the outlook and behavior of Americans. Among the candidates are: i) the development of an entirely new world on distant shores - a world where the rules were there to be made as the Pilgrims/Puritans/Quakers and others determined, ii) the colonists' growing self-identity as Americans, the evolution of that separate identity, and these peoples' coordination and cooperation from 1607 to the Albany Union conference in 1759, the Stamp Act Congress in 1763 and the Second Continental Congress' decision to declare independence in 1776, iii) the workings of a multi-racial society due to the presence of aboriginal people and the importation of slaves, iv) the role of the frontier and settlement of a continually receding West, v) the enormity of immigration and their inter-action with the native-born from about the 1840s to the present, vi) the sheer size and diverse conditions of topography and climate, vii) the evolution of democracy over four centuries on a large scale, viii) the experience of modernization over the past century on a scale unknown to, and before, the rest of the world.
This movie in effect tells the fourth story - and tells it in a thrilling, colorful way -- from the 1840s when the frontier was still the Ohio Valley to about 1885 - not so long a time. (Contrast this with the 169 year colonial period).
The movie is stunning - beautifully cast - music you'll always remember - and many powerful and moving scenes. So many scenes live forever in my mind
- the return of the George Peppard character from the Civil War to his family's farmstead in Ohio,
-- the astonishing speech by the Richard Widmark character after the buffalo stampede has killed so many,
-- the wonderfully written emotional scenes whenever Debbie Reynolds was dealing with either Robert Preston's clumsy attempt at courtship ("why with hips like yours, having children would be as easy as rolling off a log") or her own love for the roguish Gregory Peck,
-- the George Peppard family (with the wonderful Carolyn Jones and Debbie Reynolds) singing Greensleaves as the movie nears its end,
-- and the astonishing scene of the West transformed into cloverleaf highways and overpasses after we've been watching a deserted West for several hours.
The pride in those who won the West is so evident throughout the movie - yet it's shown along with losses (the deep sadness of Henry Fonda's mountaineer at the continuing encroachment of civilization, the breach of the boundary set in an Indian treaty due to the railroad's need to set a straight course - and the resulting catastrophe).
Not too many years would pass before movie makers would be telling audiences that the settlement of the West was a triumph of vicious villains, charlatans, cynics and fast-buck artists in movies like McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Soldier Blue, Little Big Man, The Wild Bunch.
But I'm deeply grateful that I was old enough to see how the West was won in a movie like this.
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- 15.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 76.729 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 28.568 USD
- 14 set 2003
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 76.729 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 44 minuti
- Proporzioni
- 2.89 : 1