The Best Western Movies Ever Made
How the west was won (1962)
This movie closed the great era of MGM Studios. MGM’s investors needed to get a profitable movie to remain competitive. Fortunately for them, $15 million invested turned into a $50 million box office. For that time, it was an enormous amount! How the West Was Won became the last profitable MGM Western.
Movie Plot: A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century - including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
- Genre: Western
- Rated: G
- Released: 20 Feb 1963 in USA
- Runtime: 164 min
- Starring: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones
- BoxOffice: $76,729
- Awards: Won 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations.
How the West Was Won was Written by James R. Webb and directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe and produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Cinerama Productions Corp..
7.1/10 IMDB Rating
86% Rotten Tomatoes
56/100 Metacritic
86% Rotten Tomatoes
56/100 Metacritic
