How the West Was Won

I didn't really improve my Brooklyn brogue, but it was enjoyable.

The one thing, cutting the story short, was when I had a chance— to spend three days with Pat Boone in London, and we went to the film How the West Was Won, and the reason I got that honor is because Pat Boone's, I don't know what you call the guys that work with these celebrities, but he wanted to meet with his brother and ask me if I would do him the favor of keeping Pat Boone company for three days, so I did, and it was

quite the experience.

Quite something

And that period in the early 60s, every movie was kind of just overblown at that point, too.

It was all of these big, you know, that's around the same time as How the West Was Won.

That was around the same time as Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, you know, so many big, big movies.

You know, and I think that those are Those are the kind of movies that sort of cement why I think a lot of younger people think that movies are – like every classic film is three hours long just because I think that so many of the ones that get displayed, whether it's A God in the Wind or Lawrence of Arabia or something like that are, and they don't realize that those are the exceptions to the rule most of the time.

Absolutely, with Gregory Peck.

And how the West was won was also dragging us in to the cinemas.

Now, some of the music we were talking about before, the Beatles, as I said, hadn't really started yet.

On January the 1st of 1962, the Beatles auditioned for Decca Records.

The film was directed by Gordon Douglas, who made a lot of Westerns, but today is probably best known for directing the sci-fi horror classic, "Them!" about giant ants in New Mexico.

The film script was written by James R. Webb, who specialized in Westerns and wrote classic movies like "Vera Cruz," "Apache," "How the West Was Won," and "Cheyenne Autumn".

So Christopher, how did Vera Miles end up starring in "The Charge at Feather River" and what are some of the things that make this somewhat forgotten movie so unique in Hollywood history?

So at the time, uh, Miles was under a contract to Warner Brothers, and again, not doing much, but one of the things that they really wanted to do in this movie, it was the second 3D Western.

And maybe you do too.

Movies like How the West Was Won or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

I love that one.

I love John Wayne in Rio Bravo or True Grit.

And this is Look played by Beulah Archuleta.

She was a member of the Gila River Indian community and did a few films and did some TV shows like Wagon Train, How the West Was Won, Rawhide, The Alaskans, Lawman, Bronco.

So she had a little bit of a career playing these characters, but she was rarely credited in these roles, Steve.

So she might have been just like a glorified extra who got onto these things because of her work on The Searchers and people knowing her name and her appearance.

Let's talk about a movie that is grandiose, and I think it's 10 pounds of crap and a five-pound bag.

If they cut this down to half the length, because it's a massively long movie, How the West Was Won.

Loved it.

Way too long.

He's in the Alamo.

He's in How the West Was Won and Mr. Roberts.

But here's what's funny.

Here's the funny story about him is that so this he does this very peculiar accent in this movie.