William Wyler’s star-studded Western, The Big Country, recently received a reissue on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber Studio Classics. It’s a weird world when Charlton Heston gets 4th billing in a film after doing The Ten Commandments. Here’s an actor that could do any film he wanted to and yet, he opts to work with Wyler. Plus, it gave him an opportunity to work with Gregory Peck, a screen legend in his own right. Who would…
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How the West Was Won is an epic Western that follows the Prescott family bloodline during a 50-year period stretching 1839-1889. Spencer Tracy narrates the Oscar-winning film through its five main segments and an impressive epilogue showing the transformation of the West into the early 1960s. In particular, we see the Hoover Dam, the Four Level Interchange in Downtown Los Angeles, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It’s kind of like the ending…
"How the West Was Won: An Epic Western at 60 Years"