How the West Was Won (film) Quotes

How the West Was Won (film) is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . How the West Was Won stopped airing in 1970.

It features Bernard Smith (editor) as producer, Alfred Newman (composer) in charge of musical score, and William Daniels (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

How the West Was Won (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of How the West Was Won (film) is 164 minutes long. How the West Was Won (film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Karl Malden as Zebulon Prescott, Richard Widmark as Mike King, Henry Fonda as Jethro Stuart, Spencer Tracy as Narrator, Thelma Ritter as Agatha Clegg, Gregory Peck as Cleve Van Valen, and Eli Wallach as Charlie Gant.

How the West Was Won (film) Quotes

Henry Fonda as Jethro Stuart

• (Unnamed) "Mike King don't own the railroad."
• (Henry Fonda) "Oh? I don't think he knows that."

Richard Widmark as Mike King

• (Richard Widmark) "Why did you bring those bodies here?"
• (Henry Fonda) "They're railroaders. I thought somebody in the railroad might be interested."
• (Richard Widmark) "I'm the railroad and I'm not interested."

Eli Wallach as Charlie Gant

• (Eli Wallach) "There's only one kind of peace I know of, Marshal. That's the kind my brother's got."

• (Eli Wallach) "One of these days I'm likely to pay you Rawlingses a little visit."

Karl Malden as Zebulon Prescott

• (Karl Malden) "O Lord, without consulting with Thee, we have sent thy way some souls whose evil ways passeth all understanding. We ask Thee humbly to receive them -- whether you want them or not. Amen."

Gregory Peck as Cleve Van Valen

• (Gregory Peck) "From the first moment I saw you I've known that I couldn't live without you."
• (Unnamed) "Well -- I'd hate to be the cause of your death, Mr. Van Valen."

Thelma Ritter as Agatha Clegg

• (Thelma Ritter) "You know something ? I got a hunch you're gonna draw men like fish to bait. Maybe I can catch one of them while they swim by. You got yourself a partner."

Spencer Tracy as Narrator

• (Spencer Tracy) "-- about 150 years ago, an idea took shape in the mind of a man named DeWitt Clinton. And in the way Americans have of acting out their dreams, it came to be."

• (Spencer Tracy) "This land has a name today, and is marked on maps. But, the names and the marks and the maps all had to be won, won from nature and from primitive man."

• (Spencer Tracy) "After Shiloh, the South never smiled."

• (Spencer Tracy) "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."

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