The Searchers
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Summary:
If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle like such Ford classics as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) and a film about one man's troubling moral codes, a big-screen adventure of the 1950s that anticipated the complex themes and characters that would dominate the 1... Full Summary >>
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Cast:
John Wayne - (Ethan Edwards)
Jeffrey Hunter - (Martin Pawley)
Vera Miles - (Laurie Jorgensen)
Ward Bond - (Capt. Reverend Clayton)
Natalie Wood - (Debbie Edwards, older)
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Review:
Described by the director as a "psychological epic," The Searchers (1956) is John Ford's most revered Western, for its visual richness and profoundly ambiguous critique of the genre's (and America's) racism. Ford pushed John Wayne's archetypal Westerner into the realm of antiheroism, as Ethan's five-year quest to rescue his ... Continue >>
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