This is a remake of the 1931 movie that won best picture and i haven't seen that one so i can't tell if this one is better or not. This one was directed by Anthony Mann and this is sort of an epic movie and the rest of the movies he directed were epics. Before this Mann had directed several great westerns with James Stewart and Gary Cooper and this one can't compare with those, with the exception of a few like Thunder Bay. The movie starts in 1889 with Glenn Ford just married to Maria Schell and they are moving to Oklahoma for the land rush. Ford doesn't get the land he wants so he decides to run a newspaper instead. They have two kids and the movie shows them grow up and Ford winds up getting a change at becoming Governor. It's a pretty good western that doesn't seem to be that well known.