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How the West Was Won, the classic 1964 (the movie had a limited release in 1962 to special theaters, but I know of no confirmed posters from this release, and the earliest known posters are from the 1964 general release) John Ford, Henry Hathaway & George Marshall Cinerama cowboy western epic ("24 great stars in the mightiest adventure ever filmed!"; "The epic journey of four generations of Americans who carved a country with their bare hands"; "YOU will live, love, fight side by side with these great stars!"; "Written by James R. Webb"; "24 Great Stars! 3 Top Directors! In a fabulous new dramatic adventure!"; about three generations of a family who are among the first Americans to settle in the western United States; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Carroll Baker (as Eve Prescott Rawlings, "The Farm Girl"), Lee J. Cobb (as Marshal Lou Ramsey; "Frontier Marshall"), Henry Fonda (as Jethro Stuart; "Buffalo Hunter"), Carolyn Jones (as Julie Rawlings; "Marshall's Wife"), Karl Malden (as Zebulon Prescott; "The Sod Buster"), Gregory Peck (as Cleve Van Valen; "The Tinhorn"), George Peppard (as Zeb Rawlings; "Horse Soldier"), Robert Preston (as Roger Morgan; "Wagon Master"), Debbie Reynolds (as Lily Prescott; "Gambler's Bride"), James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart; as Linus Rawlings; "Mountain Man"), Eli Wallach (as Charlie Gant; "The Desperado"), John Wayne (as General William Tecumseh Sherman; "The General"), Richard Widmark (as Mike King; "Empire Builder"), Spencer Tracy (as the narrator), Brigid Bazlen (as Dora Hawkins), Walter Brennan (Colonel Jeb Hawkins), David Brian, Andy Devine, Ramond Massey (as Abraham Lincoln), Agnes Moorehead (as Rebecca Prescott), Henry [Harry] Morgan (as General Ulysses S. Grant), Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn, and Lee Van Cleef
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Important Added Info: Note that this is an "international" style poster or lobby card (meaning it was printed in the U.S. for use in non-U.S. countries). Somewhere in the early 1960s, MGM apparently made a huge "trade" deal with European movie distributors. From the early 1960s to the late 1960s, MGM released 100 or more non-U.S. movies in the U.S. under the MGM logo (some dating back to the 1950s), and in return, they apparently gave 100 or more MGM movies (from the 1950s and early 1960s) to those European distributors to release in Europe. All of the posters from both sets of releases have a very similar type of somewhat garish, very colorful artwork, and some have an MGM logo that is different from than on other MGM movies of the same time period, which makes it likely that those (with different logos) are from re-releases. None of these posters (except for the very first few of them) have any dates on them. Over the years, I have seen many of these posters (from both types) sold as first release, but, as stated above, some of these are mid to late 1960s re-releases, and the ones from U.S. movies are "international" posters (or lobby cards) that were used in non-U.S. countries. If anyone knows more about these MGM releases, please e-mail us. Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has.

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