One of the great opening movie credits and musical scores is this one by Alfred Newman for “How the West Was Won”. I always loved the dynamism of this intro but was never completely happy over how it was originally edited. Not only does the music edit miss the beats of the titles in the original version but the names of all these great talents are caught in the middle of a long dissolve where they are only onscreen for a couple of seconds. Newman timed the score but for some reason the editor Harold Kress missed the beats of the music and used longer dissolves than were necessary. Anyhow, I corrected this in this re-edit, which is something I have wanted to do for a long time. Hope you like it.
“How the West Was Won” is 1962 American epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall, produced by Bernard Smith, written by James R. Webb and narrated by Spencer Tracy. Originally filmed in true three-lens Cinerama and projected on an enormous three-panel curved screen was a spectacle to behold.
The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of (in alphabetical order) Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark. The supporting case features Brigid Bazlen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Ken Curtis, Andy Devine, Jack Lambert, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Harry Dean Stanton, Russ Tamblyn and Lee Van Cleef.
HTWWW is widely considered one of Hollywood’s greatest epics. The film received widespread critical acclaim and was a box office success, grossing $50 million on a budget of $15 million. At the 36th Academy Awards, it earned eight nominations, including Best Picture, and won three, for Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, Best Sound and Best Film Editing. In 1997, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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