How the West Was Won (1962)
A Film by John Ford and Henry Hathaway
2DVD9 + DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | Cover + DVD Scans | 158 mins | 5,00 Gb + 4,41 Gb + 3,96 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 German, #3 Spanish - AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps (each), #4 Hungarian AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subs: Czech, Danish, English HoH, Finnish, German HoH, Hungarian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish
Genre: Western
Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later. On the way they encounter river pirates, and escape with the help of fur trapper Linus Rawlings, who subsequently marries one of their daughters, Eve. The parents are drowned on a foundering raft, and the other daughter Lilith becomes a riverboat singer and catches the eye of a genteel adventurer Cleve Van Valen. They cross the plains together in a wagon train and make and lose a fortune in California; meanwhile Linus has turned farmer and, comes the Civil War, joins the Union Army and is killed at the Battle of Shiloh. One of his sons Zeb also joins the army and stays after the war as a cavalry officer and is sent to Colorado to help guard the pioneering railroad against the Indians, whose land they are crossing…