Film · MGM · 1962
Pass it on
How the West Was Won
55Watch it awake.
A family does cross the country. The pageant is tidier than the taking of it.
The review
Cinerama, a family, and a continent. The raft, the farm, the war, and the railroad are a way of saying the West was a household moving, not only a gunfight. That is the part I will keep. People die of the river and of the work. A marriage is not a joke. The scale was one of the largest of those years, and the scale is doing some of the persuading.
The persuading tidies a taking. The nations who were already there are scenery when they appear at all. I will not pretend a family epic is a full history because the screen was wide. Watch it as a family's courage and as a story the country told itself. Say out loud what the story does not film. A child can take the river. An adult has to add the sentence the pageant skipped.
Journal
Keep How the West Was Won in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Rio Bravo
66 instead of 55
Rio Bravo is still a western film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is republic: The debt is the definition of the job: the town gets a law, or it gets a man with a payroll.
The eight
- 7Industry
They farm, raft, and ride, and the film respects the labor of a migration.
- 6Household
A family is the thread, marriages and burials, not a lone gun as the hero.
- 4Piety
Providence is implied by the size of the story more than by anyone kneeling.
- 7Courage
The river, the war, and the railroad each ask someone to risk a real body.
- 5Republic
A nation is being made, and the people already living on the land are barely in the sentence.
- 5Temperance
The spectacle is large and mostly chaste, and the myth is the excess.
- 5Truth
The work is true enough. The cleanliness of the conquest is the lie of the pageant.
- 5Stewardship
A house inherits a family story and a map that leaves too much out.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · How the West Was Won · 55IMDb tt0056085
