How The West Was Won | Gold Train Shootout | Warner Classics

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

now THIS is a MASTERPIECE of a scene it has every stunt gag I can think of ...............amazing film work NO CGI, just a couple rear projection shots, but otherwise these are LIVE STUNTS by PEOPLE on a REAL TRAIN that's MOVING

[@snarflatful]

This film is massively underrated.

[@michaelthompson342]

Agree!!!

[@azohundred1353]

One of the best shootouts AND action-train scenes in movies, in my opinion. Eli Wallach found his way into three of the greatest Westerns ever in his career: The Magnificent Seven, How The West Was Won, and of course The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. George Peppard rose to the occasion in this film alongside all the icons. This ending shootout is an epic ending to an epic film.

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

i hadn't thought about this movie for 30 years, and it can be clunky in parts, but...........amazing overall........every big actor of the time

[@sammywestenberger9303]

Charlie: Nobody Move!

[@spikespa5208]

Old enough that I saw it in a Cinerama theater when it came out. Amazing cam and stunt work.

[@nckey42]

Mmm I think OUaTitW trumps HtWWW.. But Tuco is top 10 characters all time in any movie, easy.

[@robertwaid3579]

I fully agree about the Greatness of this epic Western Classic. IT was a pure Masterpiece too how it summed up the Nation's entire History of it's Western expansion into roughly three hours of fantastic story telling. Thank you so much for sharing it. 🤔🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍🤔🤔

[@justinratcliffe947]

This is it right here! Not only is HTWWW my lifelong #1 favorite movie but this scene on the train here is what helped kickstart my lifelong love of trains especially their usage in movies. This scene does indeed make a great climax/finale. And it doesn't take a genius to realize how hard as hell this scene had to have been to shoot. The scene itself was filmed on the railroad around Kingman, Arizona where it's set in the film as well. The locomotive used was Tremont & Gulf 30 which was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1917 and was built for pulling freight trains on branch lines in Louisiana until 1954 when it was sold to Magma Arizona Railroad and renumbered 7. It was used for the same purpose in Arizona until it was retired from freight service in 1968. It was bought by the Texas State Railroad in 1974 and used for pulling excursion trains ever since. It was briefly renamed and renumbered as Texas #400 but eventually reverted back to Tremont & Gulf 30. It remains operational to this day. Aside from HTWWW being my lifelong favorite movie this is one of my favorite movie train scenes next to the ones in Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, Back to the Future 3, The Lone Ranger (2013), Wild Wild West (1999) and many many more.

[@redcossack245]

A great scene from a great movie. Thanks for preserving this.

[@railroad9000]

The best scene from the film!

[@oliverganley6178]

Shame that they couldn’t upload it in the unique aspect ratio that this film was made to showcase.

[@Javelina_Poppers]

Back in my younger days in the 60s and early 70s, I worked for the copper mine that owned the train and the roughly 30 miles of spur line where this was filmed. Got to ride it once.

[@balconi89]

This train scene was brilliant.

[@robertVirtue-mc2yw]

I was lucky to see this movie in a theater in 1964. It was done in Cinerama; they used three cameras. You only see like one screen width on TV. In the theater you felt like you were in the action,

[@paulsmodels]

A classic.

[@david25876]

The stuntmen are underrated.

[@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565]

Una gran escena en la extensión de la palabra de este genial filme clásico del género Western.

[@kurtb8474]

This movie was shot in Cinerama, a wide-screen format that used three cameras and projectors to create a curved screen that surrounded the audience.

[@johnhallett5846]

if you could ever see this in an IMAX theater it would be incredible

[@sammywestenberger9303]

Charlie: Yeah 👍

[@mikekemp9877]

i believe a stuntman died filming this incredible and very dangerous sequence .brilliant scene .

[@markdoyon358]

As far as I know Bob Morgan a stuntman was so badly injured his leg had to be amputated. His wife was left in financial distress. Her friends found work for her until she got a steady paycheck from The Munsters- Yvonne DeCarlo

[@Chopski64]

They killed about a thousand years of cactus. 😮 I love how the one guy was impaled by the cactus after he was shot. Redemption! 😅 Tree huggers would freak out now. You can't beat these old movies. It's too bad they can't make simple, good movies anymore. Crash, bang, boom is beyond old.

[@reneeweinshenker5043]

Do you by any chance have medical Center episodes that you can share with us!

[@warnercomms]

It's just super 💜

[@DavidJRobinson]

There re only a few shots and fleeting, of the real train with the actors on board. there are a number of minitures and lots of optical process shots. I think they were hoping cinerama would do the rest. j.

[@poilochien]

he was almost scared ...

[@Edelweiss-wj5zx]

Classic

[@chestersleezer8821]

Yup, he use the Law to get Gant, "the law of the six gun".

[@johnnyelizabethton]

No doubt, he's Linus' boy!

[@wes326]

Dont't bring a pistol to a gunfight.

[@ScoutSniper3124]

Gunfight aside, I'm seeing a serious series of flaws in the engineering and proper securing of cargo aboard turn of the century trains. Geesh.

[@johnhallett5846]

cannot be sure that this was how it was done. Maybe artistic license but maybe not

[@sammywestenberger9303]

Charlie: Come On!

[@davetomlinson9063]

Ah yes the natives or more accurately the first immigrants as they didn’t evolve here.

[@johnhallett5846]

very true and as I pointed out they were fighting each other over land and hunting grounds for millennia. We were just better at it

[@sammywestenberger9303]

Charlie: Hey 👋

[@daveburklund2295]

​@@johnhallett5846 ignorant and reductive claim

[@andreas7136]

„How the west was stolen“ (from the natives) would be more correct.

[@johnhallett5846]

wah wah wah hey moron the natives kept stealing it from each other for millennia so what is the difference?

[@michaelray9806]

Clown

[@carmelopappalardo8477]

Who stole from whom? It is not like Indians lived in peace next to each other.

[@fuzzyscot01]

After they stole the land themselves. Do some research. What people call "native Americans" are just ones in a long line of invaders and conquerors.

[@edbetsworth2772]

Oh, by the way….Happy Columbus Day! 🤣