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How the West Was Won - Program Book
Here is the souvenir Program Book sold at Roadshow engagements for the 1962 epic in Cinerama, How the West Was Won.

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How The West Was Won (1962) -- (Movie Clip) In The Spirit Of Your Forefathers Trapper Rawlings (James Stewart) is planning revenge on merchant bandit Hawkins (Walter Brennan) and crew, even as he’s fleecing bible beating Prescott (Karl Malden) and his clan (Agnes Moorehead, Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker et al), mayhem ensuing, in director Henry Hathaway’s segment of How The West Was Won, 1962.
How The West Was Won (1962) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Fight Front And Rear Confused Union solder Zeb (George Peppard) and a Confederate acquaintance (Russ Tamblyn) are discussing deserting together when they overhear a talk between generals Sherman (John Wayne) and Grant (Harry Morgan), during the Battle Of Shiloh, in John Ford’s brief segment of How The West Was Won, 1962.
How The West Was Won (1962) -- (Movie Clip) This Land Has A Name Today After the long overture and with advanced aerial three-camera Cinerama technology, the opening narration by Spencer Tracy, James Stewart's "Linus Rawlings" the first character introduced, from the original How The West Was Won, 1962.
How The West Was Won (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Hired This Man! From director Henry Hathaway's segment The Rivers, new partners Lilith (Debbie Reynolds) and Agatha (Thelma Ritter), first with trail guide Morgan (Robert Preston), then with persistent pursuer Van Valen (Gregory Peck), early in How The West Was Won, 1963.
How The West Was Won (1962) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Live With That? Settler Zeb (George Peppard) is enraged because he thinks railroad foreman King (Richard Widmark) has finally provoked the Indians to attack, but it turns out they sent the buffalo, big action sequence from director George Marshall’s “The Railroad” segment of the Cinerama epic How The West Was Won, 1962.
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Only A Footnote In History Trooper Plumtree (Ben Johnson) returns to tell officers Archer (Richard Widmark) and Braden (George O'Brien) and the Quakers (Carroll Baker, Walter Baldwin) the politicians aren't coming, the Cheyenne, (Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland) denied again, in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn, 1964.
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) -- (Movie Clip) As A Christian Gentleman Wyatt Earp (James Stewart) and Doc Holliday (Arthur Kennedy) are Western bons vivants inconvenienced by the Indian uprising, in a side-plot in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn, 1964.
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) -- (Movie Clip) I Dare You, Homer! Richard Widmark (as "Captain Archer") continues his narration into an awful event in which Ken Curtis (a.k.a. Festus from Gunsmoke, here "Homer") leads a gang in the sport killing of an Indian, in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn, 1964.
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) -- (Movie Clip) At Last, The Promises Narrated by Richard Widmark, playing a U-S Army officer, John Ford's wholly sympathetic statement of the Indian's circumstances opens Cheyenne Autumn, 1964.

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