How The West Was Won [RePoPo] (H.264-AC3 5.1)

******************************************************************************* How the West Was Won (1962) ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type..................: Movie Container file........: AVI Video Format..........: H.264 Total Bitrate.........: 2307 Kbps / 2445 Kbps Audio format..........: AC3 384 Kbps (UNTOUCHED) Audio Languages.......: English 5.1 Subtitles Ripped......: Spanish Subtitles in Subpack..: English, Spanish, Japanese, French, Thai Resolution............: 704x240 Aspect Ratio..........: 2.89:1 (approx) Original Aspect Ratio.: 2.79:1 Color.................: Color FPS...................: 23.976 Source................: NTSC DVD Duration..............: 01:24:42 // 01:19:56 Genre.................: WESTERN!! IMDb Rating...........: 6.9 Movie Information.....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056085/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE NOTICE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a rip of the latest DVD release for How The West Was Won. It's easily recognizable due to the restoration process, which has virtually deleted any trace of the vertical lines which originally marked the separation of the Cinerama panels. This release is BIG. 2x1.4Gb files, one for each part of the movie. I hope you understand and enjoy the HQ of this rip. I could have reduced it by half, but after a few tests, the rich colours, the terrific definition, and the glorious camera work couldn't be mistreated, and I didn't want to add compression artifacts either. I'm sorry if it's too big in size for you, but I think the unbelievable quality of the original release deserves it. Check you have installed the right codecs, as listed in this .nfo file, before trying to play it. VLC will play this file without having to install any codec. If you don't like the codec(s), container, resolution, file size, languages or any technical aspect on this rip, keep it to yourself and go and do your own. Serious feedback on quality will always be welcome ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYNOPSIS: (by Andrea LeVasseur) Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall) combine their skills to tell the story of three families and their travels from the Erie Canal to California between 1839 and 1889. Spencer Tracy narrates the film, which cost an estimated 15 million dollars to complete. In the first segment, "The Rivers," pioneer Zebulon Prescott (Karl Malden) sets out to settle in the West with his wife (Agnes Moorehead) and their four children. Along with other settlers and river pirates, they run into mountain man Linus Rawlings (James Stewart), who sells animal hides. The Prescotts try to raft down the Ohio River in a raft, but only daughters Lilith (Debbie Reynolds) and Eve (Carroll Baker) survive. Eve and Linus get married, while Lilith continues on. In the second segment, "The Plains," Lilith ends up singing in a saloon in St. Louis, but she really wants to head west in a wagon train led by Roger Morgan (Robert Preston). Along the way, she's accompanied by the roguish gambler Cleve Van Valen (Gregory Peck), who claims he can protect her. After he saves her life during an Indian attack, they get married and move to San Francisco. In the third segment, "The Civil War," Eve and Linus' son, Zeb (George Peppard), fights for the Union. After he's forced to kill his Confederate friend, he returns home and gives the family farm to his brother. In the fourth segment, "The Railroads," Zeb fights with his railroad boss (Richard Widmark), who wants to cut straight through Indian territory. Zeb's co-worker Jethro (Henry Fonda) refuses to cut through the land, so he quits and moves to the mountains. After the railway camp is destroyed, Zeb heads for the mountains to visit him. In the fifth segment, "The Outlaws," Lilith is an old widow traveling from California to Arizona to stay with her nephew Zeb on his ranch. However, he has to fight a gang of desperadoes first. How the West Was Won garnered three Oscars, for screenplay, film editing, and sound production. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAST: James Stewart - Linus Rawlings Henry Fonda - Jethro Stuart Gregory Peck - Cleve Van Valen Debbie Reynolds - Lilith Prescott Richard Widmark - Mike King George Peppard - Zeb Rawlings Karl Malden - Zebulon Prescott John Wayne - Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman Carolyn Jones - Julie Rawlings Robert Preston - Roger Morgan Eli Wallach - Charlie Gant Carroll Baker - Eve Prescott Lee J. Cobb - Marshal Lou Ramsey Brigid Bazlen - Dora Hawkins Walter Brennan - Col. Hawkins David Brian - Attorney Andy Devine - Corporal Peterson Raymond Massey - Abraham Lincoln Agnes Moorehead - Rebecca Prescott Thelma Ritter - Agathe Clegg Mickey Shaughnessy - Dep. Stover Russ Tamblyn - Confederate deserter Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta - Gant gang member Mark Allen - Colin Beulah Archuletta - Indian woman Willis B. Bouchey - Surgeon Charlie Briggs - Barker Paul Bryar - Auctioneer's assistant Walter Burke - Wagon poker player Kim Charney - Sam Prescott Ken Curtis - Union Soldier John Damler - Lawyer Christopher Dark - Poker player Ken Dibbs - Blacksmith Jay C. Flippen - Huggins Sol (Saul) Gorss - Henchman James Griffith - Poker player William Henry - Staff Officer Roy Jenson - Henchman Claude Johnson - Jeremiah Rawlings Jack Lambert - Gant henchman John Larch - Grimes J. Edward McKinley - Auctioneer Harry Monty Henry "Harry" Morgan - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant Boyd "Red" Morgan - Stunts Robert Nash - Lawyer Tudor Owen - Parson Harvey Harvey Parry - Henchman Jack Pennick - Corporal Murphy Gil Perkins - Henchman Walter Reed Chuck Roberson - Union soldier/stunts Victor Romito - Henchman Jamie Ross - Bruce Gene Roth - Riverboat poker player Bryan Russell - Zeke Prescott Joe Sawyer - Ship's Officer Harry Dean Stanton - Gant gang member (billed as Dean Stanton) Clinton Sundberg - Hylan Seabury Karl Swenson - Train conductor Spencer Tracy - Narrator Lee Van Cleef - Marty Carleton Young - Union Soldier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CREW: John Ford - Director Henry Hathaway - Director George Marshall - Director Bernard Smith - Producer James R. Webb - Screenwriter William H. Daniels - Cinematographer Milton Krasner - Cinematographer Charles B. Lang - Cinematographer Joseph La Shelle - Cinematographer Harold E. Wellman - Cinematographer Ken Darby - Composer (Music Score) Dave Guard - Songwriter Johnny Mercer - Songwriter Alfred Newman - Composer (Music Score) Whiskeyhill Singers - Songwriter Harold Kress - Editor George W. Davis - Art Director William Ferrari - Art Director Addison Hehr - Art Director Henry W. Grace - Set Designer Don Greenwood, Jr. - Set Designer Jack Mills - Set Designer Walter Plunkett - Costume Designer William J. Tuttle - Makeup Arnold A. Gillespie - Special Effects Robert R. Hoag - Special Effects William McGarry - First Assistant Director Robert Saunders - First Assistant Director William Shanks - First Assistant Director Wingate Smith - First Assistant Director Loren Janes - Stunts Robert Sidney - Choreography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRIVIA: * Some stock footage from other (non-Cinerama) epics were used. The Mexican army marching past the Alamo came from The Alamo (1960) and a civil war battle was taken from Raintree County (1957). The final scenes of the modern U.S. were from This Is Cinerama (1952). * No ordinary "single-camera" version was filmed simultaneously with the Cinerama version, resulting in two noticeable dividing lines on the non-Cinerama theater prints, video, TV and DVD versions (indicating the three synchronized film strips originally used). The same problem occurred with the other Cinerama film in release at the time, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), which had not been shot in a "single-camera" version either. Both were MGM films. * Since the three lenses of the Cinerama camera sat at angles to each other on the camera itself, it was very problematic for actors to film a scene as they would in front of a single-lensed camera. When their images were projected onto the three panels of the Cinerama screen, it would appear as though the actors were looking either slightly up-screen or slightly down-screen, and not directly at their fellow actors. This is very evident in a few scenes in the previous Cinerama film, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962). However, by the time this film went into production, this problem was solved somewhat. In order to compensate for the lens angles, actors would have to look one-third of the way in and toward the camera, and pretend that they were looking at their fellow actors. Hence, when their images were projected onto the Cinerama screen, it would appear as though they were looking at each other. It was a very difficult process for actors, which is one of the reasons that three-panel Cinerama was abandoned for narrative films after this film was released. * During the Indian attack that was filmed in Lone Pine, California, a Conestoga Wagon tumbles down a hill. In order to create the illusion of the audience being inside of a tumbling wagon, a track was built down the slope of a small hill and the top portion of a Conestoga Wagon, without the wheels, was affixed onto a flatbed along with a mechanism that would turn the wagon over and over as the flatbed was guided down the hill. The Cinerama camera, in turn, was attached to one end of the flatbed so that it could shoot directly through the turning wagon as the stuntmen, including Loren Janes, were tumbled around the insides of the wagon along with boxes, barrels, blankets and other cargo. It took more than two days to prepare the scene and several takes to complete. In the final cut, this scene lasts no more than five seconds on the screen. * The first non-documentary Cinerama film, it was also one of the last to use the old three-camera technique, resulting in two very visible, somewhat distracting, dividing lines in the non-Cinerama print and all TV and home video versions. * Hope Lange was cast as a love interest for George Peppard's character, but her scenes were cut from the final print of the film. She portrayed young Julie Stuart, the daughter of Henry Fonda's character, Jethro Stuart. After Lang's scenes were deleted from the film, Julie was later portrayed by Carolyn Jones. * Stuntman Bob Morgan was seriously injured, and almost died, while performing a stunt in this picture. Toward the end of the film, there is a gunfight on a moving train between the sheriff and a gang of train robbers. Morgan was one of the stuntmen playing a robber and was crouched next to a pile of logs on a flatcar. The chains holding the logs together snapped, and Morgan was crushed by the falling logs. He was so badly hurt it took him five years to recover to the point where he was able to move by himself and walk unaided. * Due to the detail that would have been shown via the Cinerama process, the costumes had to be sewn by hand, rather than with a sewing machine, as they would have been during the time periods depicted in the movie. * Debbie Reynolds and George Peppard are the only cast members who appear in three of the five sequences in the film. According to Ms. Reynolds, in an interview for the documentary 'Cinerama Adventure," her character of Lilith was originally supposed to have drowned in the river. However, it was decided that Lilith would best tie the generations of Prescotts together; so, she remained in the story to become an elderly lady in the film's conclusion. * One of the few American films to have its world premiere in London, England. * Because the 2 dividing lines that separate the 3 separate projections could not be totally edited into a seamless match, the directors skillfully used camouflage techniques to disguise the lines. Some of the objects used for this were trees, lamp posts, window edges, porch rails, building corners, doorways and wooden crates which were positioned at these points. * This was one of only two films made in true Cinerama which were shown in regular theatres after their first runs. None of the previous Cinerama films were ever shown in regular theatres because they were travelogues and documentaries made only to show off the process, as opposed to telling a story, and it would have been pointless to show these in a "regular" format. * The train station in the film at "Gold City" was shot at Perkinsville, Arizona, and is still standing, although in a state of disrepair. It is now the mid stopping point of the Verde Canyon Scenic Railroad. The train station, the town sign and several other smaller buildings still exist. * A comic book version of this film was published in conjunction with the film's release, as was the practice back then with all family and children's films. In the comic book, when Sheriff Ramsay (Lee J. Cobb) tries to prevent Zeb Rawlings (George Peppard) from going after the outlaw Gant (Eli Wallach), Rawlings whacks Ramsay over the head with his rifle and knocks him unconscious, which explains the bandage on Ramsay's forehead in the next scene. No such explanation is offered in the film; it is as if somebody had edited something out. * Features more than 12,000 extras, including several Indian tribes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Destaone (2008-10-02)

You forgot to seed, man...

Destaone (2008-10-03)

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Rhum_Keeper (2008-10-03)

Well, I am so cool, that I almost freeze..
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Nei1 (2009-06-05)

Took a few days to get my "Share Ratio" up to 2.5. I'll ease off when I get to 3.5, which is the minimum I try to get all my torrents up to.
Then, if I have a torrent with a high Seeding Rank, I upload some more.

6_wheeler (2009-07-06)

Hay Hows about I give some seeds for you, Every thing a guy downloads should be seeded.
I guess Bitcomet might so it down though. It Don't like my name 6_wheeler, and it doesn't like my email address of about 5/6 years that I have no trouble except there, Hell I can't even log in. Some fix would be great.
Thanks 6_wheeler

RedHcp (2009-08-13)

How do i use the subpack ? all i get is spanish sub's ? Can i burn this onto a dvd disk with the subpack ?

6_wheeler (2009-09-25)

You almost make me wish I didn't have this movie all the seeders and Leechers, Makes me want to get it again, Well almost.
6_wheeler

monsmeg (2010-02-03)

Thanks for the download - I can see what you mean about the actors not looking directly at each other but nonetheless, the quality is excellent, both sound and picture. Plays beautifully with KM Player. Thanks again.

lozada1991 (2012-07-20)

so slow!!!!!!