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Name: The Searchers
Released: 1956-5-26
Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood

The Searchers

PG
1h 59m
1956

87%

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The Duke's best Western? That's what many say about this all-time classic from director John Ford. John Wayne is Ethan Edwards, whose search for a niece (Natalie Wood) kidnapped by Comanches becomes a lifetime obsession.

Director:

John Ford

Producer:

C.V. Whitney, Merian C. Cooper

Writer:

Frank S. Nugent, Alan LeMay

Cast:

John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Patrick Wayne

Special Features

Locked video

Introduction by Patrick Wayne

1 MIN

Locked video

The Searchers: An Appreciation

31 MIN

Locked video

A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and THE SEARCHERS

33 MIN

Behind the Cameras

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

87%

Critics Consensus: The Searchers is an epic John Wayne Western that introduces dark ambivalence to the genre that remains fashionable today.

Reviews

Solzy at the Movies

Danielle Solzman

Even with its deeply uncomfortable racial politics, The Searchers remains one of cinema’s most important Westerns—a film whose artistry and legacy endure, even as its darker themes continue to spark debate.

The Searchers isn’t just the greatest Western ever to hit screens. It’s one of the greatest movies ever made.

A visually majestic celebration of our nation’s splendor & a eulogy for the way all of our hope is flattened over time into common denominators of despair. The generations whom we believe will see the apex of our national potential never do & never will.

It is indeed great although not perfect.

It is in keeping alive this seemingly endless [quest] that Ford's genius asserts Itself. He has landscape to work with, and colored film and a Vista-Vision camera. With these he can achieve miracles and, to the picture's great advantage, he does.

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Additional Info

Genre:Action
Release Date:May 26, 1956
Languages:English, Spanish
Captions:English, Spanish
Audio Format:
Stereo

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The Searchers | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Special Features

Introduction by Patrick Wayne

1 MIN

The Searchers: An Appreciation

31 MIN

A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and THE SEARCHERS

33 MIN

Behind the Cameras

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

Additional Info

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