- The great peculiarity of The conquest of the west is that it is a film that includes several chapters, which are directed by different directors
- This choral film was a blockbuster that brought together a large cast of stars, highlighting the names of James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck and John Wayne in the cast.
Once the revolutionary war ended, in 1830, multitudes of settler families began their expansion towards the West and, more specifically, towards the Ohio River Valley. The Louisiana Purchase and the war with Mexico further increase the borders of the new state. At the same time, the new settlers begin to settle in the westernmost lands. Five episodes, titled Rivers, Plains, Civil War, Railroad Y The outlaws They narrate these events and the colonization of the West, taking as a reference the history of one of these settler families.
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A capitular western
The conquest of the west It is a rare film in cinema today and at that time, a story, that of the Prescott family, which was directed by four different directors. Of the five episodes that make up the film, Henry Hathaway was in charge of directing The rivers, the plains Y The outlaws, George Marshall did the same in The railway Y John Ford was in charge of making the passage titled as The civil War. I would also participate in the work of the management Richard Thorpe, in his case with historical sequences that served as transition.
The Oscar winners James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck y John Wayne They led the cast of The Conquest of the West, a blockbuster that brought together many of the Hollywood stars of the time. Of the eight Oscars for which he was nominated, the film that is broadcast today on television won three awards, in the categories of Best Original Screenplay, Editing and Sound.
How the West Was Won. EE.UU., 1962. Western. 164 min. Dir.: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall y Richard Thorpe. Int.: Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Eli Wallach, Lee J. Cobb.
