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Director: John Ford
Genre: Epic Western, Revisionist Western, Western
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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 w... Full Summary >>

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) racis ... Continue >>

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