After a long three-year absence, the battle-scarred Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, Ethan Edwards turns up on the remote and dusty Texan homestead of his brother, Aaron. In high hopes of finding peace, instead, the taciturn former soldier will embark on a treacherous five-year odyssey of retribution, when the ruthless Chief Scar's murderous Comanche raiding party massacres his family, burns the ranch to the ground, and abducts his nine-year-old niece, Debbie. D... (Full plot summary below)
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After a long three-year absence, the battle-scarred Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, Ethan Edwards turns up on the remote and dusty Texan homestead of his brother, Aaron. In high hopes of finding peace, instead, the taciturn former soldier will embark on a treacherous five-year odyssey of retribution, when the ruthless Chief Scar's murderous Comanche raiding party massacres his family, burns the ranch to the ground, and abducts his nine-year-old niece, Debbie. Driven by hatred of Indians, Ethan and his young companion, Martin Pawley, ride through the unforgiving desert to track down their lost Debbie; however, is the woman they lost and the prisoner in Scar's teepee still the same woman the searchers seek?
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| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendricka landmark Western that is at once a great, rousing adventure story, a fable about the nature of quest and fulfillment and an exploration of vicious racism |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyOne of Ford's undisputed masterpiecs and a quintessential text of the 1950s, a rare Western that explores the deep roots of racism (and sexism) in American life, and gives John Wayne his most complex performance as the anomic hero. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe Searchers contains scenes of magnificence, and one of John Wayne's best performances. |
| Austin ChronicleLouis BlackA meditation on survival, The Searchers is about the loss of faith and the death of heroes. |
| The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsBy the time of The Searchers, Wayne had toughened to match Ford's darker vision. Redemption is still out there, but it has to be fought for, and sometimes winning it doesn't make anyone happier. |
| EmpireKim NewmanIn 1956 audiences flocked to The Searchers precisely because it was a John Wayne western, and lapped up its mix of Injun-fightin' action, rough comic knockabout and intense, emotional storyline. Seen now, it is all that and much, much more. |
| Washington PostGlenn FrankelDirected by John Ford, The Searchers is widely recognized not only as the greatest American Western but as one of the best Hollywood films of all-time. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThe Searchers gathers the deepest concerns of American literature, distilling 200 years of tradition in a way available only to popular art, and with a beauty available only to a supreme visual poet like Ford. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonJohn Wayne's Ethan is his all-time top performance: funny, romantic, hard-bitten, scary, the personification of machismo. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellOne of the better examples of the western genre. |
