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Whistle Stopper - How the West Was Won (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]
![How the West Was Won (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UBsEFEGvL._SL160_.jpg)
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List Price: $34.99
Our Price: $23.95
Your Save: $ 11.04 ( 32% )
Availability: Not yet released
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: George Peppard, Debbie Reynolds, Jimmy Stewart, Carroll Baker, Gregory Peck
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929026272
Format: Anamorphic
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-09-09
Running Time: 164
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1963-02-20
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Summary: How the west was WOW!
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazon does this with all films
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Incorrect info
Comment: 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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Summary: One good thing in this film!
Comment: How The West Was Won came out in Cinerama in 1962 and when released to the average theatres, the lines from the Cinerama process were frozen in a 35mm print. The hope was that the film might make one overlook this distraction. No such luck.
There is one scene to see: the Buffalo stampede
Perhaps too, the Jimmy Stewart /Carroll Baker love scene, where you can see Stewart cracking up at the lines he has to deliver.
This is sheer nonsense, and unintentionally funny in mny spots: Debbie Reynolds as an old woman in her wig, Karl Malden in any scene, and Agnes Moorehead.
Skip this one, and see The Wild Bunch , Once Upon A Time In the West, and Ride The High Country, and Cat Ballou.
Epics: The Big Country, Cheyenne Autumn,
Also see The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and They Came to Cordura, plus any Stewart films directed by Anthony Mann, or Gary Cooper, in High Noon, The Hanging Tree, and Man of The West.
Randolf Scott in his many great films..These films give a true sense of the west and how it was expolitd by whites.
Read the reviews of How the West was Won..in 1963, they were not good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Epic, but way too expensive
Comment: This is a great epic film. I have watched it many many times & went to the picture show to see it way back when it first came out in the early sixties. The price of $ 41.99 is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion. The price should be around the low $20.00 range. Technology has changed so much the last few years. When these films are ran on TCM, the quality is absolutely excellent mint condition. I don't need a cover. No Big Deal! I will just record it on my DVD Recorder & it will cost me about only 20 cents to do it. Whoever buys this film & pays $41.99 for it, more power to you, but you are a FOOL! I need my cash to pay bills! By the way, I purchased the DVD of this film from Wal-Mart a couple of year ago for only $7.50. That's a heck alot cheaper than $41.99-- The running time is 155 Minutes. The running time of this collectors set is 162 Minutes. This is only 7 little Minutes longer. If you get down to the bottom line-The Nitty Gritty--The Great Epic El-Cid on DVD-The Collectors Edition just came out recently-(Released) & you can purchase it at tons of places & pay anywhere from around $17.99 to the low $20's. In my opinion, This film "How The West Was Won" should be around the same price as El-Cid!
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Editorial Reviews:
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With courage sinew and conflict: that s how the West was won. With three directors five interlocked stories some of movie history s most legendary action scenes and a constellation of acting talent: that s how How the West Was Won was filmed. Henry Fonda Gregory Peck Debbie Reynolds James Stewart and John Wayne are among the big names in this big saga following a family s move West through generations marked by the spectacles of a heart-pounding raging river ride a thunderous buffalo stampede and a bracing runaway train shootout. Via technological advances this panoramic winner of three Academy Awards can now be seen with a resplendent restored clarity eliminating its original three- panel join lines and in roof-raising Dolby 5.1 audio. Westward ho!System Requirements:Running Time: 162 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: WESTERN/CLASSICS Rating: G UPC: 883929026272 Manufacturer No: 1000039748
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