Searchers (1956)

Director: John Ford  Starring: Jeffrey Hunter  John Wayne  
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Publisher: Warner
Format: DVD
UPC: 00085391465126
Buy.com Sku: 40041443
Item#: VHTKGJ
Buy.com Sales Rank: 24661
Category Keywords: Classic  Essential Cinema  Indians  Kidnapping And Missing Persons  Recommended  Rescue  Theatrical Release 
Rating: NR
 
 
Features: DVD
 
With The Searchers, John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his famliy. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest, Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity. One of the most influential movies ever made, The Searchers contains sequences that are "a brilliant fusing of editing, camerawork and performance as filtered through a master director's eyes" (Ted Sennett, Great Hollywood Westerns).
 


Editor's Note

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 (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 most powerful performance as the embittered Edwards, but it's the visual poetry of what are possibly Ford's most carefully framed, lit, and composed images that shape this masterwork from beginning to end. As Wayne walks through the doorway at the film's end, he grabs his elbow in a tribute to his and Ford's close friend Harry Carey Sr., a Western film icon who had passed away a few years before.


Plot Summary

An embittered frontiersman engages in an extensive and obsessive search for his niece, abducted years ago by Indians who killed her family in retaliation for a massacre in their village.

 
Features
Region 1
Snap Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Letterbox - 1.85
Widescreen - 1.85
Additional Release Material:
Documentary
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Notes




 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Warner
Release Date: 3/29/2005
Running Time: 119 minutes
Original Release Date: 1956
Catalog ID: 14651
UPC: 00085391465126
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English
Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Henry Brandon
John Qualen
Ward Bond
Natalie Wood
Olive Carey
Vera Miles
Jeffrey Hunter
John Wayne
James Basevi - Art Director
Ann Peck - Costume Designer
Alan LeMay - Source Writer
Frank Hotaling - Art Director
Frank Beetson - Costume Designer
Winton C. Hoch - Director of Photography
Frank S. Nugent - Screenwriter
C. V. Whitney - Producer
Max Steiner - Composer
Merian C. Cooper - Producer
Jack Murray - Editor
John Ford - Director

 
Memorable Quotes
"That'll be the day."----Ethan Edwards (John Wayne)


 
Professional Reviews
New York Times
"...Heads many a list of all-time cinematic favorites....Stunning..." 05/14/1993 p.C28

USA Today
"...An audience favorite from the beginning -- and a creative influence on a generation of filmmakers..." 09/25/1998 p.7E

Chicago Sun-Times
"...THE SEARCHERS contains scenes of magnificence, and one of John Wayne's best performances. There are shots that are astonishingly beautiful..." 11/25/2001 p.4

Total Film
"...A masterpiece..." 11/01/2000 p.106

Entertainment Weekly
"...The Western that bowled over a generation of film schoolers, from Lucas to Scorsese to Spielberg..." 01/11/2002 p.30

Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]ender and insightful. It will cut you up." 07/01/2006 p.121

Total Film
5 stars out of 5 -- "Ford's picture is relentlessly unpretentious; tackling Big Themes without neon-slicking them or telling us what to think." 07/01/2006 p.122

Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "It's a thoughtful, and rather dark piece....Ford used Monument Valley as a canvas for the breathtaking photography." 07/01/2006 p.117

  
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Cinematography 5
Plot 5
Acting 5
Overall Satisfaction 5
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5 of 5 A wonderful classic Wednesday, January 05, 2000
Jeff from San Dimas, Ca  

The best of John Wayne's movies. Beautiful scenery, wonderful plot, and all of the Duke’s buddies wrapped up in one spellbinding story that’s impossible to only watch once.
 
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