How the West Was Won | Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb | Can't wait for this classic in BR

How the West Was Won | Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb | How the west was WOW!

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How the West Was Won

	How the West Was Won Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb Warner Home Video, 2007 average customer review:based on 43 reviews view larger image
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From 1839 to 1889, this epic story follows four generations of a courageous New England farm family as they travel to the fertile Ohio Valley during America's westward expansion. This wondrous historical saga is set against the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, buffalo hunters, the Pony Express and the first transcontinental railroad. How The West Was Won won three Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Sound and Best Editing.

Can't wait for this classic in BR

This movie made a lasting impression on me as a boy In Houston at the Cinerama theater on Richmond Ave. Peck, Stewart, Reynolds, Widmark, Peppard (underrated) and narration by none other than Spencer Tracy.

I also saw 2001 and Grand Prix (racing classic) in this format. I suppose
Imax is the closet you'll get these days to the "effect."

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How the west was WOW!

Done on grand scale in both production and star power and harnessed by no
less than three legendary directors the 1962 How the west was won gets in
on the remastered bandwagon and not a moment too soon for adventure fans.
I was blessed in getting this Ultimate Collector's edition in August from my
trusty neighborhood outlet in midtown Manhattan and for anyone is a fan or
has the pleasure of seeing it for the first time are in for a treat. The new
edition was well the wait. This nicely put together 3-disc set is vastly an
improvement over previous releases I'm not a "tech head" but I do know when an effort has been put into restoring film and enhancing sound as in this
release. The film is split by two disc and the third disc is that of a bonus
film "Cinerama Adventure" which showcases an informative history of the good
old short lived process that added to the adventure of movie going.
Extras also include a reprint of The Cinerama pressbook 10 photo stills and 10 behind the scene shots and 20 page general release booklet.
all in all a grand package to a grand film that deserves no less.

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Incorrect info

As an admirer of the original film since seeing it in the original three-screen Cinerama process when I was a kid, I hate to inform you all that, although released in Europe first, it was NOT the first feature film in the three-screen Cinerama process (although it was the last). George Pal's "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" was the first -- released in 1962 in the three-screen process. I still have the original road-show souvenir book and it states it clearly. "Bros. Grimm" was the first, "How the West was Won" was the second -- then, because of so much revenue being generated from its "ordinary theatrical release" the company was forced to make a compromise: A single-lens, single-curved screen process for future Cinerama productions. This was initiated with Stanley Kramer's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and followed by such films as Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and John Sturges' "The Hallelujah Trail". I just needed to get the facts straight here.
Incidentaly, this three-lens, three-screen process of "Bros. Grimm" and "How the West Was Won" is why the DVD release has unavoidably two lines running down the middle, and the strange effect of, say, a wagon rolling horizontally seeming to be constantly riding in a warped circle. This is because of the three screens being flattened back onto a straight surface.
One more thing: Alfred Newman's great score for "How the West Was Won" is truly one of the greatest western film scores in history (even quoted in other films as a quintessential western score) and to hear it in true 5.1 sound is worth the price alone!

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Amazon does this with all films

For those pointing out the reviews of older DVD versions of HWWW being here and much inappropriate, this is ,in my long Amazon experience, normal. Every time I look up a film and read the reviews (if more than one version has been put out) it is pretty much always easy to see the reviews are for all the versions - not just the one specifically listed. Good reviewers might want to be sure to note releasing company and release date in their review to help avoid this problem.

Would, though help if Amazon would simply attach only the reviews of a specific release page to that page and not move them to any other release page - but maybe it's more than their computers/program operators can handle.

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