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The Searchers (1956) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: May 27, 2003
• R2: 3 Jul 2000
Budget $3,750,000
Running Time
2 hours, 0 minutes
Country USA
Studio Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• The Searchers
• Der Schwarze Falke (1956)
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Genre: Drama, Western, Kidnapping, Revenge, Murder, Epic, Culture Clash
Tagline: he had to find her... he had to find her...
Plot: A classic Western regarded by many as the best of the genre, John Ford's THE SEARCHERS has been acknowledged by several directors who came into their own in the 1970s, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader, and George Lucas, as a powerful influence on their work. The film stars John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, a case-hardened Civil War veteran returning to his brother Aaron's (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward Bond) arrives to raise a posse to run down the Comanche who have stolen the cattle of neighbor Lars Jorgenson (John Qualen), Ethan is among those who join him. They return to find the Edwards family slaughtered and the two girls, Lucy (Pippa Scott) and Debbie (Lana Wood, then Natalie Wood), missing. The posse continues to search for the girls but turns back as winter settles in. However, Ethan and his reluctantly accepted companion, Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), the girls' part-Cherokee stepbrother, press on for another seven years, with the Indian-hating veteran becoming ever more fanatical as the hard seasons pass. In his epic meditation on racism, obsession, paranoia, and the myth of the West, Ford explores the ugly underside of a genre that he had imbued with optimism in his early career. Wayne gives perhaps his
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| Directed by |
John Ford
The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
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| Written by |
Alan Le May
The Unforgiven, Reap the Wild Wind, North West Mounted Police | |
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| Cast |
John Wayne
The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
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 | Vera Miles
Psycho, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Wrong Man |
 | Natalie Wood
Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story, Miracle on 34th Street |
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 | Lana Wood
Diamonds Are Forever, Captain America II: Death Too Soon, Satan's Mistress |
 | Ward Bond
It's a Wonderful Life, The Maltese Falcon, Bringing Up Baby | |
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| Music By |
Max Steiner
Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Arsenic and Old Lace |
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