The Searchers 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray Review The Searchersis a great western-drama from the renowned John Wayne pairing up with acclaimed director John Ford. While I’m not the biggest fan of the western genre with few exceptions, this one still a great drama that is well worth checking ou...
The Searchers 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray Review Jan052025 The Searchersis a great western-drama from the renowned John Wayne pairing up with acclaimed director John Ford. While I’m not the biggest fan of the western genre with few exceptions, this one still a great drama that is well worth ...
Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into a landmark Western offering an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays an ex-Confederate soldier seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred hi...
The article discusses the influence the John Ford and John Wayne film "The Searchers" has had on filmmakers. From the closing shot of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather," to the Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and George Lucas's "Star Wars," the film has ...
there is no suggestion the white men have invaded their land. Ford shared that simple view with countless other makers of Westerns, and if it was crude in 1939 it was even more so as late as “The Searchers” (1956), the greatest Ford/Wayne collaboration. Only in his final film, “Che...
Paul Schrader updates The Searchers: embattled John Wayne becomes morally upright George C. Scott, and the Comanches become pornographers. This sounds more powerful and interesting than it is. Virtually humorless, the movie is also dramatically and visua
The film ends with the mother and child reunited. In a decision that is both dramatically and cinematically inspired, Travis watches their meeting from the rooftop of a nearby garage, and then drives away. There is the same feeling as when John Wayne, in “The Searchers,” restores the miss...
Bruce Willis could have stepped into the boots of John Wayne for a sci-fi remake of the latter's most iconic Western. Few actors are as closely tied to a genre as Wayne is to Westerns.John Wayne starred in 80 Westernsthroughout his decades-long career, and while he appeared in everyt...
John Wayne Kirk Douglas Howard Keel ‘The War Wagon’ Is a Victim of John Wayne’s Success Few stars have a filmography as stacked as John Wayne, both from a volume and quality standpoint. Whether you look at the 1930s or the 1970s, you can find alegitimately great movie with John Way...
In 1977, John Wayne was asked to list his five personal favorite films, which just so happened to include two popular movies of his own. The Trail Was A Planned Sci-Fi Remake Of John Wayne's The Searchers This new take on Searchers set the story on an alien planet ...