The Oscars 60' Collection (3 Films) - 5-DVD Set ( How the West Was Won / My Fair Lady / The Great Race ) ( Blake Edwards' The Great Race )

The Oscars 60' Collection (3 Films) - 5-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: How the West Was Won / My Fair Lady / The Great Race
Alternate Title: Blake Edwards' The Great Race
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
David Donatello Awards
Golden Globes
Moscow International Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
563 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1962 - 1965 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Ford
Henry Hathaway
George Cukor
Blake Edwards

Written By:
James R. Webb
Alan Jay Lerner
George Bernard Shaw
Arthur A. Ross
Blake Edwards

Actors:
Carroll Baker ..... Eve Prescott
Lee J. Cobb ..... Marshal Lou Ramsey
Henry Fonda ..... Jethro Stuart
Carolyn Jones ..... Julie Rawlings
Karl Malden ..... Zebulon Prescott
Gregory Peck ..... Cleve Van Valen
George Peppard ..... Zeb Rawlings
Robert Preston ..... Roger Morgan
Debbie Reynolds ..... Lilith Prescott
James Stewart ..... Linus Rawlings
Eli Wallach ..... Charlie Gant
John Wayne ..... Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Richard Widmark ..... Mike King
Brigid Bazlen ..... Dora Hawkins
Walter Brennan ..... Col. Jeb Hawkins
Audrey Hepburn ..... Eliza Doolittle
Rex Harrison ..... Professor Henry Higgins
Stanley Holloway ..... Alfred P. Doolittle
Wilfrid Hyde-White ..... Colonel Hugh Pickering
Gladys Cooper ..... Mrs. Higgins
Jeremy Brett ..... Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Theodore Bikel ..... Zoltan Karpathy
Mona Washbourne ..... Mrs. Pearce
Isobel Elsom ..... Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
John Holland ..... Butler
Jack Lemmon ..... Professor Fate
Tony Curtis ..... The Great Leslie
Natalie Wood ..... Maggie Dubois
Peter Falk ..... Maximilian Meen
Keenan Wynn ..... Hezekiah Sturdy
Arthur O'Connell ..... Henry Goodbody
Vivian Vance ..... Hester Goodbody
Dorothy Provine ..... Lily Olay
Larry Storch ..... Texas Jack
Ross Martin ..... Baron Rolfe Von Stuppe
George Macready ..... General Kuhster
Marvin Kaplan ..... Frisbee
Hal Smith ..... Mayor of Boracho
Denver Pyle ..... Sheriff
William Bryant ..... Baron's Guard

Synopsis:

How the West Was Won (1962)
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century--including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

My Fair Lady (1964)
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

The Great Race (1965)
Comedy about an early 20th century car race across three continents.

How the West Was Won (1962)
The story of how, over several generations, families opened up the Western U.S. to settlement. Zebulong Prescott, his wife Rebecca and daughters Eve and Lilith make the perilous journey, first down the newly built Erie Canal. Along the way they meet hunter and trapper Linus Rawlings, a genuine mountain man and catches Eve's eye in particular. They go their separate ways but Linus helps them out again when river bandits try to rob the Prescotts of their earthly possessions. A subsequent tragedy on the river however brings Eve and Linus together. Eve's sister Lilith decides to leave as soon as possible but ends up meeting her man, Cleve Van Valen and they make their way to the West Coast where they make their fortune. Eve and Linus' son Zeb fights in the Civil War and stays in the army afterward. He is assigned to protect the railroad, currently under construction. He sees the fear Indians have of the encroachment of white men onto their lands and the destruction of the buffalo. He makes a name for himself as a lawman and eventually agrees to take over his aunt Lilith's ranch, but not before having to take on one last fight.

My Fair Lady (1964)
Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady, and fool everyone into thinking she really is one, too! He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he's grown accustomed to her face and can't really live without it.

The Great Race (1965)
In the early twentieth century, the Great Leslie - daredevil and all 'round Renaissance man always clad in white - has several world records to his name in daring feats of courage, always with the faithful Hezekiah by his side. Leslie's arch enemy is the dastardly Professor Fate - always clad in black - who is always trying either to outdo Leslie or thwart Leslie's attempts of daring, without success. Leslie suggests to the Webber Motor Car Company that they show their engineering expertise by building the supreme motor car for a New York to Paris race, that car which they ultimately name the Leslie Special after their inspiration. Not to be outdone, Fate, with his equally dastardly sidekick Max, also enters the race with what he considers his motor car masterpiece, the Hannibal Twin-8. Nothing is too dastardly an act in Fate's goal of winning. One of the other entries is the beautiful Maggie Dubois, a reporter covering the race for the New York Sentinel newspaper. An emancipated woman, Maggie initially tried to convince both Leslie and Fate to use her as their driving partner, both who refused, considering her among the weaker sex. Maggie however convinced the newspaper both to hire her and to sponsor their own car with her as the driver based on the internal struggle within the newspaper's ownership, which is similar to Maggie's own struggles. Maggie expects to win: in her logic, she is covering the entire race (which she does with the use of some primitive but effective technology), meaning she needs to be first at the finish line. Despite being emancipated, Maggie is not averse to using her feminine wiles to her advantage. Through the race, they come across a few adventures and obstacles. But being a long race with much interaction between the racers, their mindsets and priorities may change based on their time together.

How the West Was Won (1962)
Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later. On the way they encounter river pirates, and escape with the help of fur trapper Linus Rawlings, who subsequently marries one of their daughters, Eve. The parents are drowned on a foundering raft, and the other daughter Lilith becomes a riverboat singer and catches the eye of a genteel adventurer Cleve Van Valen. They cross the plains together in a wagon train and make and lose a fortune in California; meanwhile Linus has turned farmer and, comes the Civil War, joins the Union Army and is killed at the Battle of Shiloh. One of his sons Zeb also joins the army and stays after the war as a cavalry officer and is sent to Colorado to help guard the pioneering railroad against the Indians, whose land they are crossing. By this time Lilith is the elderly lady of the family, having survived long enough to see the dream of settlement realized, but not, mercifully, the aerial shots of the Los Angeles freeway traffic with which the film ends.

My Fair Lady (1964)
A chance meeting between two noted British linguists, Prof. Henry Higgins and Col. Hugh Pickering, leads to a wager that will test Higgins' skills. After they hear a cockney flower girl caterwaul in the street, Higgins proposes to transform the girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a refined Victorian lady with an aristocratic accent. After some hesitation Eliza agrees to become their test case.

The Great Race (1965)
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention. The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning of the film. Edwards' tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight.

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