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DVD. Run time: 165 mins. Language: English. Filmed in panoramic Cinerama this star-studded epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary directors (Henry Hathaway John Ford and George Marshall) combine their skills to tell the story of three families and their travels from the Erie Canal to California between 1839 and 1889. Spencer Tracy narrates the film which cost an estimated 15 million dollars to complete. In the first segment The Rivers pioneer Zebulon Prescott (Karl Malden) sets out to settle in the West with his wife (Agnes Moorehead) and their four children. Along with other settlers and river pirates they run into mountain man Linus Rawlings (James Stewart) who sells animal hides. The Prescotts try to raft down the Ohio River in a raft but only daughters Lilith (Debbie Reynolds) and Eve (Carroll Baker) survive. Eve and Linus get married while Lilith continues on. In the second segment The Plains Lilith ends up singing in a saloon in St. Louis but she real