How the West Was Won

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Details

  • Release: November 1, 1962
  • Duration: 164 Minutes
  • Distributed: MGM
  • Genre: Western

Production Team

  • Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
  • Producer: Bernard Smith
  • Written by: James R. Webb
  • Based on True Grit by Charles Portis

Cast

  • Carroll Baker
  • Walter Brennan
  • Lee J. Cobb
  • Andy Devine
  • Henry Fonda
  • Carolyn Jones
  • Karl Malden
  • Agnes Moorehead
  • Harry Morgan
  • Gregory Peck
  • George Peppard
  • Robert Preston
  • Debbie Reynolds
  • Thelma Ritter
  • James Stewart
  • Eli Wallach
  • John Wayne
  • Richard Widmark

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Spectacular scenery around our charming Colorado town, at the foot of the San Juan Mountains, caught the attention of the director of the film True Grit, starring John Wayne as the one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn. In 6 weeks in 1969, the film crew turned 5 blocks of the center of this old railroad town into 1880’s Fort Smith, Arkansas.

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