If you loved Destry Rides Again, try How the West Was Won
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by George Marshall, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Western territory. If that's the register that drew you to Destry Rides Again, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What How the West Was Won is
You trek west with a pioneer family in the 1830s and cross the plains, plains that soon blur into decades of war and expansion. Through it all they endure, carry on, and shrink into another face in the westward crush. The camera lingers less on their drama than on the land swallowing them whole.

