The Searchers
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Movie Reviews of The Searchers
Movie Review: The best John Wayne western
Summary: 5 Stars
John Ford and John Wayne were both at the top of their game when they made this movie. It is a great film, very engrossing and entertaining.
Wayne plays a man who comes back to his brother's ranch after the Civil War. He joins a posse out looking for Comanche who have attacked a nearby farm. The posse realizes too late that the Comanche have doubled back and attacked other farm. Ethan discovers that they have killed his brother and his brother's family. Only his niece has survived. She's been kidnapped. Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter, who was raised by his brother, swear that they won't stop until he finds her. Only Wayne doesn't intend to rescue her.
This movie is a great look at revenge and the people who seek it.
Movie Review: I would rank this movie in the top 5 of all I have seen!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this movie in 1956 in a small town theater in Wisconsin. I was nine years old and to this the day the movie has "haunted" me with its beauty and horror: the color and enchantment of the monument valley vistas juxtaposed with this sort of anti-hero of a man who would shoot out the eyes of an already dead native American. That scene sticks with me like the memory of some dream I am unable to lose in my subconscious...difficult to explain. At nine years old I didn't understand the word hate and prejudice etc. Now when I view this movie, I remember my "innocence" of 1956. I remember the magic of a movie which simply does not lose its strength over time...truly a great film!Movie Review: Career Defining!
Summary: 5 Stars
The closing shot in this movie defines the career of one of the greatest American actors ever: Ethan Edwards (a Civil War veteran played by Wayne) rides up on horseback to deliver the kidnapped girl to her surviving relatives and walks off (the classic John Wayne walk) into the sunset as we are looking out through the door of the house. The only other career defining scene that even comes close is the final scene of "Dirty Harry" when Clint Eastwood asks, "Do ya feel lucky punk?" and blows the character played by Andy Robinson away. "The Searchers" is arguably the greatest western ever made. John Ford & John Wayne were as great a team as Scorcese/DeNiro. The photography throughout the movie is also unbeatable.Movie Review: Many levels of meaning
Summary: 5 Stars
Once you get past the conventions that were required in a Western made in 1956 (e.g. a white man playing the part of Chief Scar, and insulting treatment--by characters in a work of fiction--of Look), what do you have? Simply the greatest Western made by the greatest director of Westerns in film history. (For what it's worth--and I think this means something when you're talking about a Hollywood product--THE SEARCHERS was in the top 20 of moneymakers in the year it was released). Of course a lot of bad movies have made money, but ask Scorcese and Spielberg et al. what films have influenced them. Food for thought for the "enlightened."Movie Review: Movie is about racism, not racist
Summary: 5 Stars
It is sad to see people so quickly label a truly great movie without possessing a knowledge of history or the intent of the film maker. The whole point of this movie was to show how bigotry warps a man to the point that he cannot co-exist with other people. John Wayne's character is left alone to drift at the end of the movie because he cannot adapt to the "confines" of society. As to embattled Native Americans not kidnapping whites, apparently a prior reviewer has never heard of Quanah Parker, a famous, great warrior chief, who happened to be half-white. His mother had been taken captive by Indians.