The Searchers (John Wayne Collection)

The Searchers (John Wayne Collection)
by John Ford

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Actor: Jeffrey Hunter, John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Director: John Ford
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Summary: 5 Stars

Mr. Shannon: You are the one engaging in revisionism history! Farmers were burned out by Indians, young girls were taken captive, and the Noble Indian was not always so noble in his deeds. Study a little more deeply and you'll see that Western Civilization and war-like Indian tribes were never going to live side-by-side. Heck, the more war-like tribes didn't even live in peace between themselves. Mr. Ford's movie stands as a beautifully-filmed tribute to the courage of the American Western pioneers. 'Nuff said.

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Working together for the 12th time John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards a believer more in bullets than in words. He's seeking his niece captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger thirst the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive five-year quest Ethan encounters something he didn't expect to find: his own humanity.Running Time: 119 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 085391158653 Manufacturer No: 115865

A favorite film of some of the world's greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, John Ford's The Searchers has earned its place in the legacy of great American films for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it's the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western--the hero (or antihero) who must stand alone according to the unwritten code of the West. The story takes place in Texas in 1868; Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a Confederate veteran who visits his brother and sister-in-law at their ranch and is horrified when they are killed by marauding Comanches. Ethan's search for a surviving niece (played by young Natalie Wood) becomes an all-consuming obsession. With the help of a family friend (Jeffrey Hunter) who is himself part Cherokee, Ethan hits the trail on a five-year quest for revenge. At the peak of his masterful talent, director Ford crafts this classic tale as an embittered examination of racism and blind hatred, provoking Wayne to give one of the best performances of his career. As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of "savage" Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty (the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture) is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue. Still, this is undeniably one of the greatest Westerns ever made. --Jeff Shannon

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