I couldn’t agree more. For me,The Searcherswas an “epiphany movie,” where the veil of “normal” movie-watching was lifted to reveal another way ofseeing. I came to realize why Ford is so respected among academics. Why in 2002,MovieMaker Magazinecalled him one of the Top 5 Most Inf...
A short description of this movie is coming soon. Please check back at a later date. The Searchers (1956) Filming Location in Colorado: Aspen, Gunnison John Wayne plays Ethan Edwards who returns home after the Civil War only to be raided by a Comanche. Ethan sets out on a year-long jou...
‘The Searchers’ (1956) ‘I turn on a John Ford film — one or two — before every movie, simply because he inspires me,’ Spielberg gushed of the late Western director in a 2013 interview with the American Film Institute. ‘I’m very sensitive to the way he uses his camera to pain...
Other films in which she appeared include Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955), The Searchers (1956), Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Follow Me, Boys! (1966), Sergeant Ryker (1968) and Molly and Lawless John (1972). Born: 08-23-193...
V. Whitney Pictures; the first being The Searchers in 1956 with John Wayne and directed by John Ford, the second being The Missouri Traveler in 1958 with Brandon deWilde and Lee Marvin. Having previously been featured in a number of his father's films, this was the 20-year-old Wayne's...
The Searchers(1956) John Wayne and John Ford made great movies — together and apart — afterThe Searchers, but that doesn’t make it any less of a culmination. Both had worked in, and thought about, the Western for years by the time they shot this haunting film. Wayne plays Ethan Edwa...
(The Searchers(1956) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant(2015)) to “straight to video” gorefests with little artistic merit and a specific target audience (The Hills Have Eyes(1977)). There is, as the Film Guide numbers suggest much in between likeStraw Dogs(1972)andOutrage(...
But it’s really wild to think about how this movie came out in 1952 — the same year as ‘High Noon,’ the period between John Ford making ‘Wagon Master’ and ‘The Searchers,’ aka Peak Hollywood Westerns — and it so deftly and thoroughly deconstructs the heroic status of the cow...
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” This was true whether Mann was directing a pulpyfilm noiryarn or one of his later Hollywood epics, but never more precise or celebrated than in his Westerns. More in-depth than any other Western filmmaker, even John Ford (The Searchers, 1956), Mann explores the human element of the ...