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If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle like such Ford classics as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) and a film about one man's troubling moral codes, a big-screen adventure of the 1950s that ...more
Year: 1956 | Running Time: 125 minutes
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Described by the director as a "psychological epic," The Searchers (1956) is John Ford's most revered Western, for its visual richness and profoundly ambiguous critique of the genre's (and America's) racism. Ford pushed John Wayne's archetypal Westerner into the realm of antiheroism, as Ethan's five-year quest to rescue his niece from Comanche chief Scar mutates into killing her when he discovers her living placidly as Scar's bride. While Ethan's lethal racism signals his insanity, Wayne's ...more
- John Wayne - Ethan Edwards
- Jeffrey Hunter - Martin Pawley
- Vera Miles - Laurie Jorgensen
- Ward Bond - Capt. Reverend Clayton
- Natalie Wood - Debbie Edwards, older
- Danny Borzage - Accordionist at Funeral
- Ruth Clifford - Deranged woman at fort
- Cliff Lyons - Col. Greenhill
- Robert Lyden - Ben Edwards
- Nacho Galindo - Mexican bartender
- Chief Thundercloud - Comanche chief
- Peter Mamakos - Jerem Futterman
- Shooting Star
- Jack Pennick - Private
- John Ford - Director
- Merian C. Cooper - Executive Producer
- C.V. Whitney - Producer
- Frank S. Nugent - Screenwriter
- Winton Hoch - Screenwriter
- Alan LeMay - Book Author
- James Basevi - Art Director
- Frank Hotaling - Art Director
- Patrick Ford - Associate Producer
- C. Frank Beetson, Jr. - Costume Designer
- Frank Beetson, Jr. - Costume Designer
- Ann Peck - Costume Designer
- Wingate Smith - First Assistant Director
- Jack Murray - Editor
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