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River | Settler
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Best Writing Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 1964
Best Film Editing | 1964
Best Sound | 1964
Top Ten Films | 1963
Special Award | 1963
Best Edited Feature Film | 1964
Best Sound Editing Feature Film | 1964
1964
Theatrical Motion Picture | 1964
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration Color | 1964
Best Cinematography Color | 1964
Best Picture | 1964
Best Costume Design Color | 1964
Best Music Score Substantially Original | 1964
Budget 15,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 50,000,000 USD
Stuntman Bob Morgan was seriously injured, and almost died, while performing a stunt in this picture. Toward the end of the film, there is a gunfight on a moving train between the sheriff and a gang of train robbers. Morgan was one of the stuntmen playing a robber and was crouched next to a pile of logs on a flatcar. The chains holding the logs together snapped, and Morgan was crushed by the falling logs. He was so badly hurt it took him five years to recover to the point where he was able to move by himself and walk unaided.
During filming in June 1961, Karl Malden had to be rushed to hospital to have an emergency appendectomy.
Due to the detail that would have been shown via the Cinerama process, the costumes had to be sewn by hand, rather than with a sewing machine, as they would have been during the time periods depicted in the movie.
John Ford's habit was to always sit beside the camera while it was filming, so he could watch the action intently. Unfortunately, because of the triple lens on the Cinerama camera, he kept appearing in shots until director of photography Joseph LaShelle hit on the idea of building a rig that allowed Ford to sit above the camera.
Although James Stewart's character was only supposed to be 28 in the movie, Stewart was actually 53 at the time of filming.
"Narrator: The west was won by its pioneers, settlers, adventurers is long gone now. Yet it is theirs forever, for they left tracks in history that will never be eroded by wind or rain - never plowed under by tractors, never buried in compost of events. Out of the hard simplicity of their lives, out of their vitality, of their hopes and sorrows grew legends of courage and pride to inspire their children and their children's children. From soil enriched by their blood, out of their fever to explore and be, came lakes where once there were burning deserts - came the goods of the earth; mine and wheat fields, orchards and great lumber mills. All the sinews of a growing country. Out of their rude settlements, their trading posts came cities to rank among the great ones of the world. All the heritage of a people free to dream, free to act, free to mold their own destiny. [final narrative from the film "How The West Was Won"1962 - narrated by Spencer Tracy]"
"Narrator: [speaking about the Civil War] After Shiloh, the South never smiled."
