The Searchers (1956)
Directed by John Ford
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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He then made many more highly regarded films: Stagecoach (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Wagon Master (1950).
True, it's often mentioned in the same breath as "Stagecoach," "Red River," "High Noon," "Shane," "Unforgiven," and other well-known classics, but the fact that it is almost always mentioned at all is the point.
Age aside, however, he's still a remarkably far cry from most of his later roles and almost unrecognizable from the tortured Uncle Ethan of "The Searchers."
…actor — a team that would go on to make some of the genre’s classics, including The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Their personal friendship and professional alliance would span four decades , including such other milestone achievements as “The Searchers” (1956).
John Ford's epic Western about America and its racial past is the quintessential American film about what it once meant to be American, more than any other film that I could think of and that includes Citizen Kane.
True, it's often mentioned in the same breath as "Stagecoach," "Red River," "High Noon," "Shane," "Unforgiven," and other well-known classics, but the fact that it is almost always mentioned at all is the point.
True, it's often mentioned in the same breath as "Stagecoach," "Red River," "High Noon," "Shane," "Unforgiven," and other well-known classics, but the fact that it is almost always mentioned at all is the point.
As late as 1959, Hawks responded to Wayne's increasingly harsh pale-rider persona--stemming largely from the director's own dark Red River (1948)--by casting him in Rio Bravo as a friend so loyal and lighthearted that he even kisses another old cowboy on the forehead.
True, ever since "The Covered Wagon" that superlative designation has been periodically applied to outstanding sagebrush sagas -- "Red River" and "Shane," for example; but even if memories of those mastodon milestones of the great open spaces have not been dimmed by time's passage, this superb action drama cannot escape winning a prominent niche in their exalted company.
It was also Montgomery Clift's first movie role, though the film he made afterwards, "The Searchers," premiered first because of the long production schedule of Red River.
John Wayne – genre star and a force in John Ford’s 1956 “adult” entry, The Searchers – centers Red River as Tom Dunston.
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From his earliest talkies, like The Lost Patrol (1934) and The Informer (1935), he earned the esteem of his peers and the critics.
He then made many more highly regarded films: Stagecoach (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Wagon Master (1950).
He then made many more highly regarded films: Stagecoach (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Wagon Master (1950).
He then made many more highly regarded films: Stagecoach (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Wagon Master (1950).
John Ford ("The Searchers"/"The Quiet Man"/The Horse Soldiers") directs the Welsh colliery film as if Wales were his Ireland.
Ford, despite being best known for his Westerns, never won an Oscar for even the best of those genre pieces (which included the likes of Stagecoach and The Searchers).
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He then made many more highly regarded films: Stagecoach (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Wagon Master (1950).
The movie was based on a novel by Alan LeMay and a script by Ford's son-in-law Frank Nugent, the onetime film critic who wrote 10 Ford films, including “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” and “Wagon Master.”
He then made many more highly regarded films: Stagecoach (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Wagon Master (1950).
The movie was based on a novel by Alan LeMay and a script by Ford's son-in-law Frank Nugent, the onetime film critic who wrote 10 Ford films, including “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” and “Wagon Master.”