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All four cinematographers were Oscar winners.	D
The film stock was so expensive that all the actors were asked to know their lines and their ma [...]	D
Some stock footage from other (non-Cinerama) epics were used. The Mexican army marching past th [...]	D
The riverboat is the same one used in L'albero della vita (1957).	D
Features more than 12,000 extras, including several Indian tribes.	D
Since the three lenses of the Cinerama camera sat at angles to each other on the camera itself, [...]	D
John Wayne previously played Gen,. Sherman in Carovane verso il west: The Colter Craven Story ( [...]	D
This features three of Hollywood's greatest Western stars, John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry [...]	D
The sequence where the Indians attack the wagon train took six weeks to shoot.	D
The British Board of Film Censors was invited by Cinerama Ltd. to classify the film, which pass [...]	D
Although James Stewart's character was only supposed to be 28 in the movie, Stewart was actuall [...]	D
The opening pan across the Rockies is actually an outtake from This Is Cinerama (1952). The sam [...]	D
This would later inspire an ABC-TV series of the same name (Alla conquista del West (1976)) tha [...]	D
Among the stars who were approached to take part in the film but did not were Marlon Brando, Ja [...]	D
The River Pirate scenes were filmed at Cave-In-Rock on the Ohio River in southeastern Illinois. [...]	D
The second non-documentary Cinerama film, it was also one of the last to use the old three-came [...]	D
A lot of the actors were very intimidated by the three-lens Cinerama camera and felt they had t [...]	D
John Wayne's wig was longer at the sides to suggest that his character did not have time to get [...]	D
Raymond Massey made a career out of portraying Abraham Lincoln, having played him on stage, on [...]	D
It was Eli Wallach's role in this film, not I magnifici sette (1960), that led to Sergio Leone' [...]	D
Final film of Beulah Archuletta.	D
Henry Hathaway was famous for his salty language. Debbie Reynolds instigated a swear jar on the [...]	D
By 8/12/63 the film had grossed $17 million.	D
Included among the 25 films on the American Film Institute's 2005 list of AFI's 100 Years of Fi [...]	D
Gary Cooper had been offered the role of Linus Rawlings but died before filming began. James St [...]	D
The San Francisco mansion that Debbie Reynolds lived in as Mrs. Van Cleve is the same mansion t [...]	D
Russ Tamblyn and Bryan Russell appeared in both Cinerama movies of 1962: this one and Il meravi [...]	D
Final film of Joe Sawyer.	D
Stuntman Bob Morgan was seriously injured, and almost died, while performing a stunt in this pi [...]	D
The lyrics for "Home in the Meadow", sung by many characters throughout the movie, were written [...]	D
Linus Rawlings was born in 1810 and died in 1862.	D
Hope Lange was cast as a love interest for George Peppard's character, but her scenes were cut [...]	D
Of the five segments, Henry Hathaway directed "The Rivers", "The Plains" and "The Outlaws", Joh [...]	D
The film was inspired by a factual series of the same name on the settling of the West that had [...]	D
MGM commissioned Louis L'Amour to novelize the screenplay. The book became a bestseller.	D
John Wayne had intended to play a character in the part directed by Henry Hathaway, but John Fo [...]	D
Because the two dividing lines that separate the three separate projections could not be totall [...]	D
Henry Fonda's part was originally much bigger. It was gradually scaled down.	D
The role of Lilith, played by Debbie Reynolds, somewhat foreshadowed Reynolds portrayal of the [...]	D
Frank Sinatra was originally intended for the Gregory Peck role.	D
When the film was released many viewers expressed disappointment that John Wayne appeared so br [...]	D
The characters of Linus Rawlings and Jethro Stuart are friends. The actors who play them James [...]	D
Eve Prescott Rawlings was born in 1820 and died in 1865.	D
Debbie Reynolds and Carroll Baker became very good friends while making the film.	D
The train station in the film at "Gold City" was shot at Perkinsville, AZ, and is still standin [...]	D
An intermission was required to allow the projectionists enough time to re-thread the three pro [...]	D
John Ford's habit was to always sit beside the camera while it was filming, so he could watch t [...]	D
Spencer Tracy provides the narration; Bing Crosby originally was slated to do so.	D
Spencer Tracy was only able to narrate the film rather than play a part due to his health probl [...]	D
Carroll Baker plays George Peppard's mother in the film, but he was three years older than Bake [...]	D
This was the second highest-grossing film of 1963 behind Cleopatra (1963). But unlike Cleopatra [...]	D
The main cast features seven Academy Award winners Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, Jame [...]	D
During the Indian attack that was filmed in Lone Pine, CA, a Conestoga wagon tumbles down a hil [...]	D
The river-rafting sequence was filmed over a period of seven days.	D
No ordinary "single-camera" version was filmed simultaneously with the Cinerama version, result [...]	D
During filming in June 1961, Karl Malden had to be rushed to hospital to have an emergency appe [...]	D
Frustrated by the technical limitations and difficulties of shooting with the three-strip Ciner [...]	D
Due to the detail that would have been shown via the Cinerama process, the costumes had to be s [...]	D
One of only two movies--the other being Il meraviglioso mondo dei fratelli Grimm (1962)--filmed [...]	D
Famed western author Louis L'Amour wrote a novelization of this film which was published in 196 [...]	D
Cinerama was so expansive that it couldn't really be configured for close-ups. The nearest it c [...]	D
The only film that year nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards and not in any Best Mo [...]	D
Debbie Reynolds and George Peppard are the only cast members who appear in three of the five se [...]	D
A comic-book version was published in conjunction with the film's release, as was the practice [...]	D
John Ford complained that the sheer breadth of the Cinerama cameras meant that he had to dress [...]	D
Most of the production was shot in the original Cinerama process using three strips of 35mm fil [...]	D
One of the few American films to have its world premiere in London, England.	D
Final film of Kim Charney.	D
Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda appeared in five movies together, the others being Ultima notte [...]	D
John Wayne: shot the key cameo role of Gen. William T. Sherman in five days.	D
As part of its collaboration with MGM, Cinerama agreed to modify its system by reducing the fra [...]	D
James Stewart offered to play his own dead body in the Civil War story but was refused by John [...]	D
The film takes place from 1839-89.	D

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Cleve Van Halen bets his pistol while on the wagon train in the 1850s, claiming it to be "London-ma [...]	D
A modern water tower appears in the background of a wide shot of troops during Mexican War narratio [...]	D
In the train portion, when Zeb Rawlings is alerted to riders ahead, and climbs on the coal tender, [...]	D
Farmers would have known that burying the dead just off the river bank in the flood plane, would me [...]	D
When Zeb rides up to the Arapaho and they fire at him, he races back to the train camp, gets off hi [...]	D
When Zeb Rawlings joins Jethro Stuart at Stuart's cabin in the mountains, Stuart discourses about t [...]	D
Tire tracks in the scene where the Indians attack the wagon train.	D
During the train robbery sequence at the end of the film, the train consisted of a caboose, two fla [...]	D
During a gun battle on the railroad train, a man is ejected from the train and knocks over a Saguar [...]	D
During the last sequence in the rapids, when the raft disappears under water, there is a sharp edit [...]	D
When the buffalo stampede through the railway camp, the buffalo cause the roof of an underground bu [...]	D
Incorrectly regarded as goof--When the hunter shoots the buffalo, it appears that his rifle is not [...]	D
(at around 31 mins) The sign for the California wagon train lists Roger Ward as wagonmaster, but th [...]	D
The film depicts the Prescott family taking the wrong channel on the Ohio River and going through r [...]	D
During the final scene of the movie when the camera is looking down at a modern freeway cloverleaf, [...]	D
The Sacramento River river boat is shown passing through mountainous terrain, while the Sacramento [...]	D
The train cars in the Outlaws gunfight have modern AAR couplers. During this era they would have us [...]	D
As Zeb leaves his home to fight in the Civil War, the tune "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" can be [...]	D
During the river raft scene the tent on the raft is dry at first, then reflects sunlight as it has [...]	D
In 1850 the wagon master Roger Morgan refers to Cleve Van Thalen as a "tinhorn gambler." However, a [...]	D
Rawlings is traveling up the Ohio river to Pittsburgh with the Prescott family down river. All are [...]	D
There is no explanation of why Sheriff Ramsey is fine in one scene and wearing a bandage on his for [...]	D
When the buffalo hunters arrive on the Union Pacific, the steam locomotive is a wood burning loco, [...]	D
A 'fake' buffalo is shot but the gun is clearly aiming nowhere near the buffalo.	D
The Prescott family suffers a great tragedy navigating the Falls of the Ohio rapids in 1839. Howeve [...]	D
Ma and Pa Prescott are buried on the bank of the river in which they drowned. When Eve visits her p [...]	D
When Ma and Pa Prescott are first buried, their graves are alongside a river. When older Eve is vis [...]	D
In the rapids, a large wooden storage container falls of the raft;,it then reappears in the next sh [...]	D
While trying to attach himself to the wagon train, Cleve Van Thalen approaches Lilith Prescott and [...]	D
When Debbie Reynolds teaches the game of poker to her grand children, one of the girls accidentally [...]	D
Linus Rawlings ('Jimmy Stewart') is depicted as having gray hair. The body of the man they identify [...]	D
When Cleve leaves the poker table on the ship, he puts down his cards twice. First he lays them dow [...]	D
While she is refusing Morgan's proposal, Lilith's shoulder strap is on/off her shoulder between sho [...]	D
After the first day of the battle of Shiloh, the movie shows Grant wavering and being steadied by S [...]	D
After the train derails during the shootout scene near the end of the movie, the camera cuts from Z [...]	D
Linus and Eve die three years apart, yet both their graves look fresh when Zeb comes back from the [...]	D
When Roger Morgan is testing a new whip, he has it in his left hand and then it magically appears i [...]	D
In the wagon train sequence, wagon master Roger Morgan orders the wagons to make a run for it to es [...]	D
At the very end of the movie, when the camera flies under the Golden Gate bridge, it and its operat [...]	D
When Linus Rawlings (James Stewart) arrives at the Prescott camp, it is supposedly night. However, [...]	D
The Prescotts were shown traveling west on the Erie Canal, then floating on a raft through Ohio (wh [...]	D
When Linus Rawlings throws a dagger into the chest of one of the bandits, the wire guiding it can b [...]	D
When the wagon train, on its way to California, is attacked by Indians, it is in a mountainous area [...]	D

Frase

Zeb Rawlings: It ain't quite what I expected. Th [...]	D
Mike King: Why did you bring those bodies here? [...]	D
Cpl. Peterson: Mrs. Rawlings, there ain't much g [...]	D
Zeb Rawlings: Take a good look. You wanted a war [...]	D
[first lines] Narrator: [as the camera pans ove [...]	D
Linus Rawlings: [Linus walks up to find Eve's ma [...]	D
Zeb Rawlings: Mike King don't own the railroad! [...]	D
Zebulon Prescott: O Lord, without consulting wit [...]	D
Roger Morgan: Well, ain't that what I been doin' [...]	D
Narrator: [speaking about the Civil War] After S [...]	D
Dora Hawkins: [after stabbing Linus Rawlings] We [...]	D
Agatha Clegg: [Lily has asked to partner-up with [...]	D
Dora Hawkins: It's right over here. [Walking th [...]	D
Roger Morgan: Wet or dry, you're the handsomest [...]	D
Narrator: The west was won by its pioneers, sett [...]	D
Eve Prescott: [after pulling apart form a long k [...]	D
Charlie Gant: There's only one kind of peace I k [...]	D
Narrator: [speaking about the Erie Canal] ... ab [...]	D
Charlie Gant: One of these days I'm likely to pa [...]	D
Jethro Stuart: [to Zeb Rawlings] Settled down fo [...]	D
Zeb Rawlings: Boys, get back from there! Look do [...]	D
Lilith Prescott: I've got two things no one can [...]	D
Linus Rawlings: Thank ya, ma'am. That's right ta [...]	D
Cleve Van Valen: From the first moment I saw you [...]	D
Zeb Rawlings: Do you remember the story Pa used [...]	D
Parson Alec Harvey: The laddie's health the reas [...]	D

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