How the West Was Won

Ben Mankiewicz introduces How The West Was Won, 1962.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces How The West Was Won, 1962.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces How The West Was Won, 1962.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces How The West Was Won, 1962.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces How The West Was Won, 1962.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces How The West Was Won, 1962.

Confused Union solder Zeb (George Peppard) and a Confederate acquaintance (Russ Tamblyn) are discussing deserting together when they overhear a talk between generals Sherman (John Wayne) and Grant (Harry Morgan), during the Battle Of Shiloh, in John Ford’s brief segment of How The West Was Won, 1962.

Settler Zeb (George Peppard) is enraged because he thinks railroad foreman King (Richard Widmark) has finally provoked the Indians to attack, but it turns out they sent the buffalo, big action sequence from director George Marshall’s “The Railroad” segment of the Cinerama epic How The West Was Won, 1962.

Trapper Rawlings (James Stewart) is planning revenge on merchant bandit Hawkins (Walter Brennan) and crew, even as he’s fleecing bible beating Prescott (Karl Malden) and his clan (Agnes Moorehead, Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker et al), mayhem ensuing, in director Henry Hathaway’s segment of How The West Was Won, 1962.

From director Henry Hathaway's segment The Rivers, new partners Lilith (Debbie Reynolds) and Agatha (Thelma Ritter), first with trail guide Morgan (Robert Preston), then with persistent pursuer Van Valen (Gregory Peck), early in How The West Was Won, 1963.

After the long overture and with advanced aerial three-camera Cinerama technology, the opening narration by Spencer Tracy, James Stewart's "Linus Rawlings" the first character introduced, from the original How The West Was Won, 1962.

Three directors and an all-star cast tell How The West Was Won (1962) starring James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, John Wayne, and Henry Fonda.