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5 days ago · Movie (1956) • 26 total actors • 119 minutes The Searchers follows a cast of characters on a journey to rescue a young girl kidnapped by Native Americans. John Wayne stars as Ethan Edwards, a conflicted Civil War veteran on a quest for revenge.
3 days ago · The Searchers is a troubling film precisely because the genocidal colonists that make up its core cast of characters are human.
6 days ago · Dir. John Ford. 1956, 119 mins. U.S. New 70mm print from a restoration by Warner Bros in collaboration with The Film Foundation. With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood. Martin Scorsese has claimed that he watches this film, arguably western master Ford’s greatest achievement, every year, and with good reason.
3 days ago · In Scorsese’s esteemed estimation, the very things that made The Searchers so shocking were the same things that made it so important. Edwards’ bigotry, racism, and hatred were “the American story” in a nutshell, with Wayne representing the nation as a whole. “He’s so full of hate that ultimately he’s got to leave and he can’t ...
2 days ago · Ford returned to the big screen with The Searchers (Warner Bros, 1956), the only Western he made between 1950 and 1959, which is now widely regarded as not only one of his best films, but also by many as one of the greatest westerns, and one of the best performances of John Wayne's career.
3 days ago · Starring in Western classics like The Searchers, True Grit, and Stagecoach, many saw Wayne as the epitome of American masculinity. One of his all-time classics found an unlikely remake in 20th Century Fox's iconic kids' movie, Ice Age.
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3 days ago · John Ford frequently collaborated with western star John Wayne, so it's absolutely no surprise that Wayne was cast in the lead role of Ford's 1956 Western The Searchers.Wayne played Ethan Edwards ...
