Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, George Peppard

Panoramic western following the daughter of a pioneering family from her youth in 1830 to old age.

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DVD Release Date: September 30, 2006

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  • July 14, 2007
    Western epic that's rather lengthy and uneven, but where else are you going to see all the biggest stars of a genre all in the same film?
  • January 7, 2009
    George Peppard is the true star of this film, he even gets the most screen time, so why doesn't he get the credit for it?! He outshines the greats: Peck, Wayne, Stewart and Fonda. An epic in terms of the cast, landscape, scale, and the lengthy period it covers. A true portrait of...( read more) a fascinating bygone era.
  • November 20, 2009
    The length of this movie, was how this film was lost.
  • October 22, 2009
    Good movie but very long.I fell asleep after awhile
  • August 29, 2009
    This movie was okay.
  • August 24, 2009
    Crap, CRAP, and MORE CRAP.
  • July 30, 2009
    Mostly an excuse to shove a bunch of stars in a movie together.
  • July 25, 2009
    Saw it before and really love his movies
  • June 9, 2009
    This movie was the last of the Cinerama movies made. The DVD tries to recreate the Cinerama version in a wide screen format. You can see the two lines where the three pieces of film came together. I first saw this movie in a small theater in a small town in Oklahoma when I was in...( read more) the third grade. It wasn't the Cinerama version but it made such an impression on me that I wrote a one page history of the west based on the movie and showed it to my Mother. At the time I didn't know that this was Hollywood's version of history. In this version of history the west wasn't won by hard working farmers, ranchers and miners. It was won by dancers, gamblers, and corrupt railroad bosses. The story in the movie is really five different stories linked together by characters all belonging to the same family. Each one is so short that each one individually wouldn't even make a good hour long television show. Together they make an epic movie. The movie is packed with visual effects to take advantage of the Cinerama projection system. The actual history is glossed over quickly to get from one dramatic action sequence to the next. This movie made lots of money despite the fact that there was only a handful of Cinerama theaters built. Most people saw a standard size version in a widescreen theater or later on television. Two years after this movie came out they began filming movies in a format that matched Cinerama but only used one projector. This eliminated the distortion were the three strips of film came together on the screen and was cheaper to produce and could be shown in standard theaters. Even though the technology behind the movie didn't hold up it laid the groundwork for all of the modern widescreen movies produced today.
  • June 7, 2009
    Cine espectaculo. Superproduccion Total. Se hace un poco larga. Tiene el toque friki del cinerama. (7+)

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