The ‘idiot drunk’ producer of How the West Was Won, his near-death experience, and his struggle to finish the epic

The hugely ambitious production of HOW THE WEST WAS WON went way over budget, nearly lost its final segment, and saw a stuntman lose his leg.

Henry Hathaway, the director of John Wayne’s Western epic with tons of stars from Henry Fonda and James Stewart to Debbie Reynolds and Gregory Peck, lamented difficult producer Sol Siegel on a storyline set over three generations and starred everyone from Henry Fonda and James Stewart to Debbie Reynolds and Gregory Peck.

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