The Searchers (John Wayne Collection)
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DVD Cover Information 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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Movie Reviews of The Searchers (John Wayne Collection)
Movie Review: Rare combination of a good story and profound ideas.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've never been a big fan of John Wayne, however this film has something special to offer. The Searchers is more than another fun film: it actually takes up deep ideas and handles them with sophistication. Wayne is the typical lonely American hero; he is the embodiment of the ideal of American freedom developing directly from John Locke (yes the British philosopher). A string of anti-social "stars" can be traced back through Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumpbo and Twain's Huck Finn. The basics of social contract theoey developed by Locke claims that freedom and society are antithetical. In The Searchers we witness the enactment of that conflict: Wayne (the searcher forver outside) and the more social settlers (with a roof over their heards). The conflict between freedom and society, and the sacrifices required for settled existence are manifest throughout the film. The other deep issue taken up in this film is the question of community itself. What constitutes a true community? In The Searchers we see Wayne who has family (what he calls blood kin) and Martin (the half-breed child) who is constantly reminded by Wayne that he has no family. Yet as Wayne searches for his blood kin (his neice) we are constantly aware that he is fully prepared to kill her if she has been taken sexually by the Comanche. All the while Martin, who has no blood kin yet who was raised with genuine affection in the family of the missing girl, feels that he is part of the family--even more so than is her uncle who would kill her. At the very end of the film Wayne (Nathan) and Martin must deal with having re-taken the long sought for neice. Wayne had been certain to kill her for years, suddenly decides not to. Initially this seems strangley out of character. But realize that Martin searched with Nathan for five years, and though he is unable to claim any blood relationship to the now young lady he genuinely loves her as a sister. In a wonderful twist on the all too typical romnantic theme, it is Martin's love for his sister that redeams her in Wayne's eyes and makes him finally realize that community (of which family is only the most basic level) is more than blood. This film has some good humor, wonderful cinematography, and genuinely deep themes. A wonderful film for those wanting more than just another cowboy movie.