Encore Westerns Presents World Television Premiere ‘How the West Was Won’
Starz Entertainment’s Encore Westerns presents the world television premiere of the restored and newly remastered Academy Award-winning epic How the West Was Won on Saturday, August 30 at 8:00 PM ET. The film will also be available on Encore HD On Demand day and date with Encore Westerns. The 1962 production, directed in three parts by John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall, follows four generations of a family from 1839 to 1889 as they move westward from New York State toward the Pacific Ocean. The film features a “who’s who” of Hollywood legends including John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Debbie Reynolds, Eli Wallach, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Walter Brennan, and is narrated by Spencer Tracy.