How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won is a 1962 American Metrocolor epic Western film. The film stars James Stewart, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, and Richard Widmark.
==Plot==
Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus (James Stewart), who helps them fight off a pack of thieves. Linus then marries daughter Eve Prescott (Carroll Baker), and 30 years later goes off to fight in the Civil War with their son, with bloody results. Eve's sister, Lily (Debbie Reynolds), heads further west and has adventures with a professional gambler (Gregory Peck), stretching all the way to San Francisco and into the 1880s.
==Cast==
*James Stewart as Linus Rawlings
*Carroll Baker as Eve Prescott Rawlings
*Debbie Reynolds as Lillith Prescott van Valen
*Karl Malden as Zebulon Prescott
*Agnes Moorehead as Rebecca Prescott
*Walter Brennan as Col. Jeb Hawkins
*Brigid Bazlen as Dora Hawkins
*Gregory Peck as Cleve Van Valen
*Robert Preston as Roger Morgan
*Thelma Ritter as Agatha Clegg
*George Peppard as Zeb Rawlings
*Andy Devine as Corporal Peterson
*Harry Morgan as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
*John Wayne as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
*Henry Fonda as Jethro Stuart
*Richard Widmark as Mike King
*Lee J. Cobb as Marshal Lou Ramsey
*Eli Wallach as Charlie Gant
*Carolyn Jones as Zeb Rawlings' wife, Julie
*David Brian as Lilith's attorney
*Russ Tamblyn as Confederate deserter
*Raymond Massey as President Abraham Lincoln
*Mickey Shaughnessy as Deputy Stover
*Lee Van Cleef as river pirate (uncredited)
*John Larch as Grimes a gambler (uncredited)
*Clinton Sundberg as Hylan Seabury (uncredited)
*Ken Curtis as Cpl. Ben (uncredited)
*Harry Dean Stanton as a member of Gant's gang (uncredited)
*Jack Lambert as a member of Gant's gang (uncredited)
Category:1962 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:1960s films
Category:Films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:Western films
Category:American epic films
Category:War epic films
Category:Epic films
Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Category:Films scored by Alfred Newman
Category:Films scored by Ken Darby
Category:Films directed by George Marshall
Category:Films directed by Henry Hathaway
Category:Films directed by John Ford
Category:Rated G