La conquista del West

Titolo originale: How the West Was Won
Regia: John Ford | George Marshall | Henry Hathaway |
Anno: 1962
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Western
Tag: epic | river | settler | native american | caravan | outlaw | frontier | colonisation | family | riverboat | usa history |
Cast: Debbie Reynolds | George Peppard | Carroll Baker | James Stewart | Gregory Peck | Karl Malden | Robert Preston | Henry Fonda | Richard Widmark | Carolyn Jones | Agnes Moorehead | Lee J. Cobb | Thelma Ritter | John Wayne | Harry Morgan | Eli Wallach | Walter Brennan | Brigid Bazlen | David Brian | Andy Devine | Raymond Massey | Mickey Shaughnessy | Russ Tamblyn | Spencer Tracy | Harry Dean Stanton | Lee Van Cleef | Rodolfo Acosta | Clinton Sundberg | Willis Bouchey | Claude Johnson | Kim Charney | Bryan Russell | Stanley Livingston | Jay C. Flippen | Tudor Owen | Karl Swenson | James Griffith | Jack Pennick | Jim Michael | Chuck Roberson | Claude Akins | Mark Allen | Don Anderson | Beulah Archuletta | Robert Banas | Willie Bloom | Bill Borzage | John Breen | Charlie Briggs | Buddy Bryan | Paul Bryar | Walter Burke | Polly Burson | Ken Curtis | John Damler | Christopher Dark | Kem Dibbs | Forrest Draper | Craig Duncan | Ben Black Elk Sr. | Raoul Freeman | Sol Gorss | Tom Greenway | Barry Harvey | William Henry | Jerry Holmes | Roy Jenson | Walter Kightly | Jack Lambert | John Larch | Robert P. Lieb | Herbert Maneval | J. Edward McKinley | Gary Menteer | Harold Miller | Harry Monty | Bob Morgan | Boyd 'Red' Morgan | Forbes Murray | Robert Nash | Cliff Osmond | Harvey Parry | Gil Perkins | Red Perkins | Murray Pollack | Paul Power | Frank Radcliffe | Buddy Red Bow | Walter Reed | Victor Romito | Jamie Ross | Gene Roth | Bing Russell | Danny Sands | Joe Sawyer | Jeffrey Sayre | Phil Schumacher | June Smaney | Kelly Smith | Dub Taylor | Ken Terrell | Jack Tornek | William Wellman Jr. | Harry Wilson | Carleton Young |

La storia del West attraverso le vicende di una famiglia di coloni. Una sorella sposa un cacciatore solitario; l'altra, un giocatore di professione. Il figlio della prima partecipa alla Guerra Civile, durante la quale salva anche la vita al generale Grant. Conclusa la guerra, diventa sceriffo di una città di frontiera e contribuisce così all'affermazione dell'ordine e della nuova civiltà americana.

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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