How the West Was Won

This is a product of a studio trying to make huge spectacle with MGM using the Cinerama process to create what Abel Gance did in 1927 with his Napoleon epic, essentially using a tryptic of full frames to create an ultra-wide view. It has three directors (including John Ford, the reason I’m watching this), a couple of dozen major actors, several of whom could have been considered real stars at the time of the release, and it purports to tell the story in the title, an expansive epic of a gran...