How The West Was Won - Train robbery sequence

[stadiumist1]

The scene where the locomotive rams the barrackade would have been good in 3-D.

[windstorm1000]

This is the best sequence in the film--expertedly directed, building up tension. The progress of civiliazation (ie the logs, stove) become enemies of the law as they careen back and forth threatening to smash one and all. One of the stuntsmen lost a leg in this sequence.

[jdubbjazzbass]

this was great for tv entertainment,but train robberies in the real west were not done this way.

[8010cookie]

A WHISTLE HAPPY ENGINEER! LOL

[StinkFingerr]

I purchased the Blu-Ray version of How the West was Won. It has been fully restored & digitally " straightened out" in a way previously not possible.

It looks & sounds beautiful & I highly recommend it.

[joaobatistabraghin]

Fantastic!!!!!!!

[kbtanzi]

This was truly magnificent on the big screen. However my father, a movie buff, remembers that one of the stuntmen in this scene was actually killed while filming - I believe possibly when the chain holding the logs broke loose.

[TheTydestroyer]

No meu tempo de maquinista,isso éra um baita charque.MP.

[gobipill]

southern style quality train

[leesherman100]

How was ole' Tuco able to keep his hat on the whole time?? I went to the theater to see this in '62. I was a big deal then!! Great flick about our frontier days!!

[marktsheppard]

... it takes a long time to stop a train... and nobody would ever even think of messing or delaying the mail... or the food shipment... or the ammo... or the "medicine" ...hmmm... the train and it's load was beyond untouchable... hmmm... it was the wonder of the modern era... or it was the proof of the future... or proof of what MAN can build with this grit and "smile" ...smile meant a tough expression... when something was heavy... or took all your strength... to carry a two man sack of oats...

[marktsheppard]

...or maybe... hmmm... it took ten minutes to stop a train... to stop a it safely... hmmm...

[marktsheppard]

...OK... the most important point of this entire clip... is NOT the shoot out... it's the technology... because in reality... that boiler... and other priceless equipment... and tools... that were packaged with it... and the oil... and other maintenance gear... and also... that cargo train... would have been escorted by the ARMY... or the Militia... and it would have traveled as slow as walking speed... because the tracks washed out... and the train needed time to stop on a dime... HA?!

[Duveng1]

who made these tracks? They're shit.

[janeenalcala47]

njoyed this great album in downloadmusic .im

[rajivnarainsingh]

One of my favorites - watched it during my school days with friends ! Still feel the thrill while watching this ... and to think that these movies were conceptualised , made in tough conditions with greatest of actors of those days ... boy guess todays generation too woul love these - they should be re-screened in the movie halls !

[jamiehorsey]

i always found the outlaw sequence the most boring, it was also very sad as the west was modernized

[PhillipCreeper]

Fantastic! This is a great movie. Thanks for sharing. This was a great scene which also included a ride on river rapibs and a buffalo stampede. This great action scene at the time compared well to the chariot race in Ben Hur and the car chase in Bullet. I remember when they were shown regular in theatres I would go there near the end of the movies after I had seen them once just to watch these scenes and then leave.

[killcancersteve]

tuco

[yogafan6500]

Great train scene from the classic Cinerama epic How The West Was Won. It should at least got an oscar nomination for best picture instead of that $200 million megaton bomb of a movie called Cleopatra. Even if it did it should have been a best picture winner instead of a Benny Hill type comedy called Tom Jones.

[JPnintendofan]

@yogafan6500 It was nominated for Best Picture.

[WhyAyeMann]

fantastic train wreck!

[4800Michael]

wow, looks like a red dead redemption movie!

[JPnintendofan]

At 0:17 if you look closely at the train's shadow on the right, you can see the cameraman and what I think is a Cinerama camera in the front of the train.

[majorlee76251]

imagine if the stuntman hit a real cactus-ouch

[zelig46]

The stunt double for George Peppard, clinging to the wagon in the timber, for a severely injured his mistake scheduling demands with dramatic consequences, 6 months and 5 years of hospital convalescence.

(Sorry for Automatic Traductor)

zelig46

[tburzio]

Did anyone notice how loose the bolt is on the arch bar truck? No wonder they were outlawed!

[Minden1760]

You really have to admire how much extensive filming was done on that train. Usually movies will only have footage of an actual train in three or four shots total per scene like this, since you had to rent the locomotive and rolling stock out for a very high price. Either the director had a very efficient team with him, or the railroad just wanted the publicity of having their railroad featured in this film. Either way, sheer brilliance in film making.

[Lockbar]

I saw this in the ttheater when I was a little kid. It wa so exciting I almost pee'd in my pants.

[containsmediumpeople]

so this is where they got that achievement name from in Red Dead Redemption.

[afthefragile]

4:30 is iconic!

great cinematography!!

[SR722]

One of the best, and most well-filmed, scenes of the film.

[WorldWarMovies823]

ha they tried to do this in back to the future but what happened? FAIL!

[louisianabones]

This is when Hollywood made real movies!

[AJNorth]

Nearly a half-century after its release, "How the West Was Won" remains a towering achievement of the cinema - and a lasting tribute to everyone involved in its production. (And yes, seeing this projected in Cinerama is a life-changing experience.)

Today, movies seem largely to be filled with pretty faces, slathered with CGI and gratuitous violence - and are either based on lame (or nihilistic) screenplays, or are [atrocious] remakes. THIS is film-making.

[CarChases88]

fantastic scene 10/10.

[cochranexyz]

This movie is great. I'd love to see it on the big, big screen. Never have been able to that.

[aCagedApe]

Now that's a movie! They sure don't make them like this anymore...

[brooksvilleguy]

henry hathaway. awesome work. note his use of very short takes in the action sequence. yvonne decarlo's husband, a stuntman, was crippled by the logs in that sequence.

[thiuslord]

Best movies ever made!

[Liveandletskate666]

G Code

[falcor1978]

LMAO!!! @ 4:47 "Ouch!"

[moonraker185]

i remember seeing this in shaftesbury avenue london when i was a kid it was the biggest screen I had seen I wa only 12 years old

[stephenanthony1]

shoot em!!

[johannes914]

Wow ! that must be an experience on the very big screen ...

[2y8b4plz]

@johannes914 I'll say! But other movies were also pretty awesome on the big screen too. When my family went to see Alice in Wonderland, we were were astounded at the intensity of the eye color of Johnny Depp's character.

[johannes914]

@2y8b4plz Man , you cant' compare. This is Cinerama, 3 stripes of film projected on a curved screen. This is cinema that beats Imax ! ... and its from 50 years ago

[zipper179]

@johannes914 And, the stunt work for this film was more than 1st class..

[Engineer5344]

hot brake shoes on the caboose at 2:06

[bellcord]

This movie is so long it is quite possible that your clothes will be out of style by the end of the gawdamn movie...

[thorir30]

I have this beauty on 8mm sound film. One of my favorites. I love westerns.

[Raketgruppen]

It's available on BleRay, and view it on min 50" TV at home. WOW !!

[cmndrkool321]

does anyone have the entire series on youtube? i love this show and would love to see it all the episodes! (i only saw about 5 of them)

[huskyjerk]

Is this entire film posted to YouTube?

[PatheticFilms94]

And another nightmare scene

[PatheticFilms94]

I think I saw a nightmare scene

[tiredoldcrow]

movie buffs please help me find an old movie of pioneers going west to settle and met hardships along the way dad has a rattlesnake in a bag, quotes a lot of scripture and drinks wiskey.seems he laid the snake on a bar and it was cut into peices there.very little to go on sorry

[wsternran]

one of my favourite movies. Also love the music score very much. Thank you for posting. Never knew someone was killed during filming this sequence. So sad...

[trainmaster844]

Texas State Railroad engine #400 (at the time, Magma Arizona RR #7) was used in the filming of the movie and was slightly damaged after running through the pile of logs... she's currently awaiting repairs at the TSRR shops in Palestine, TX.

[MrMember3]

still?

[bozez1]

how about 5:51 for stunt work...these movies were the shit. What do we have to watch now a days....Queerback mountain.

[MrMustang1965]

Watch "Back to the Future 3" to see how they parodied this scene to get the DeLorean back to the future!

"How the West Was Won" is one of my all-time favorite westerns!

[JIMJ32X]

Great sequence!!!! A stunt man was killed in the filming of it. Eli Wallach as one of the best western bad guys ever.

[acuity67]

whoa

[mainebay]

Check out the new dvd release of this movie. They completely digitized the three panel Cinerama process. You can see them in this clip here but it's gone in the new dvd release.

[shekanthony]

Try to see this movie in the new Ble-ray version. It is terrific. I bought it right a way. Love it. In fact, I have collected most of the old movies in Blu-ray versions.

It worth every penny of it.

[cholulasaucehot]

imagine what it took to film that action sequence back in 1962

[dustinrjo]

wow, I watched this about a hundred times on VHS as a kid, and I only watched the rest of the movie about 20 times. Greatest climax to an epic ever!

[nikotinell31]

Eli Wallach died. Fuck this movie

[donnahide]

Yes, the one of most outstanding powerful western caracters there..Eli Wallach!

[tommiecoughlin]

cool...thanks!