How The West Was Won [Blu-ray] [1963]

See Larger Image	List Price: £19.99 Our Price: £9.98 Availability: Usually dispatched within 11 to 13 days Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Starring: Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark Directed By: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall Average Customer Rating:


Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: Blu-ray EAN: 7321900210843 Format: PAL Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: 2008-09-29 Running Time: 162 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1963
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Editorial Reviews: - Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A classic western restored to a blu-ray widescreen wonder Comment: 'How the West was Won' was the forerunner of widescreen cinema and was originally shot as a cinerama (curved screen) movie. Warner have made an excellent job of creating a widescreen letterbox transfer (without the three-panel vertical line joins) of this classic western from 1963 which features a myriad of screen giants such as Gregory Peck, Carrol Baker, James Stewart, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden, John Wayne, George Peppard, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark and Debbie Reynolds, amongst others. Like the more recent 'Deadwood', this movie was the work of more than one director (Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall in this case) and is essentially split into three historical periods while also following the fate of one particular family from beginning to end. The cinematography looks fantastic on this blu-ray transfer. There is sometimes a little haziness evident where the three joins have been removed which is not surprising given the overall astounding clarity of the print but this does not detract from the film. I remember seing this film in the cinema as a child and later on TV, but it never looked as good as this. The excellent score by Andrew Newman, the various musical interludes, overture, intermission and exit, and the narration by Spencer Tracy are given the digital 5.1 and Dolby True HD treatment to compliment the transfer. There are a good number of extras including a commentary, features and trailers etc, but also a second disc which comprises another HD version of the film designed to give the viewer a taste of the original cinerama feature. Well done Warner - a 45 year old classic now preserved and restored to something way beyond expectation. Customer Rating: Summary: WHY NO DIGIBOOK PACKAGING FOR ZONE B BLU-RAY EDITION? Comment: This is not a review of the film "How the West Was Won". Rather, it is a comment on the packaging of the Zone B release of the Blu-ray edition. In the U.S. the Blu-ray edition is packaged as a "digibook". This "digibook", to the best of my knowledge, looks like it might be a miniture reproduction of the original cinema brochure. Why has this been forsaken for the Zone B release? What we get is an ordinary regular Blu-ray box. This may explain why, at the time of my posting this review, there is no image published for the Zone B release. What a shame? More Reviews