The Searchers (50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) (2-DVD)
Includes Comic Book, Publicity Photo Cards and Other Bonus Material
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DVD Details
- Audio Commentary by Ford biographer Peter Bogdanovich
- 5 Documentaries: Meet Jeffrey Hunter, Monument Valley, Meet Natalie Wood, Setting Up Production & A Turning Of The Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and 'The Searchers'
- Interviews 'The Searchers': An Appreciation
- Introduction by Patrick Wayne
- 2 Original Theatrical Trailers: The Searchers Trailer & The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford Trailer
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 6, 2006
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Wayne & Jeffrey Hunter | |
Performer: | Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, John Qualen, Olive Carey & Henry Brandon | |
Directed by | John Ford | |
Edited by | Jack Murray | |
Screenwriting by | Frank S. Nugent | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | Frank Hotaling & James Basevi | |
Produced by | Merian C. Cooper & C. V. Whitney | |
Director of Photography: | Winton C. Hoch |
Entertainment Reviews:
...The Western that bowled over a generation of film schoolers, from Lucas to Scorsese to Spielberg...
Entertainment Weekly
...A masterpiece...
Total Film
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the better examples of the western genre.
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Cinema Sight
Some fine vignettes of frontier life in the early southwest and a realistic presentation of the difficulties faced by the settlers in carving out a homestead in dangerous Indian country.
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Variety
There is perhaps some discrepancy in the play between Wayne's heroic image and the pathological outsider he plays here (forever excluded from home, as the doorway shots at beginning and end suggest), but it hardly matters, given the film's visual splendou
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Time Out
This C.V. Whitney production is undoubtedly one of the greatest Westerns ever made.
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Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 4.5/5 --
A rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come.
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New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
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 his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his five-year search, he encounters something unexpected: his own humanity.
Beautifully shot by Winton C. Hoch, thrillingly scored by Max Steiner and memorably acted by a wonderful ensemble including Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood and Ward Bond, The Searchers endures as "a great film of enormous scope and breathtaking physical beauty." -(Danny Peary, "Guide for the Film Fanatic").
Product Description:
A classic Western regarded by many as the best of the genre, John Ford's THE SEARCHERS has been acknowledged by several directors who came into their own in the 1970s, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader, and George Lucas, as a powerful influence on their work. The film stars John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, a case-hardened Civil War veteran returning to his brother Aaron's (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward Bond) arrives to raise a posse to run down the Comanche who have stolen the cattle of neighbor Lars Jorgenson (John Qualen), Ethan is among those who join him. They return to find the Edwards family slaughtered and the two girls, Lucy (Pippa Scott) and Debbie (Natalie Wood), missing. The posse continues to search for the girls but turns back as winter settles in. However, Ethan and his reluctantly accepted companion, Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), the girls' part-Cherokee stepbrother, press on for another seven years, with the Indian-hating veteran becoming ever more fanatical as the hard seasons pass. In his epic meditation on racism, obsession, paranoia, and the myth of the West, Ford explores the ugly underside of a genre that he had imbued with optimism in his early career. Wayne gives perhaps his most powerful performance as the embittered Edwards, but it's the visual poetry of what are possibly Ford's most carefully framed, lit, and composed images that shape this masterwork from beginning to end. As Wayne walks through the doorway at the film's end, he grabs his elbow in a tribute to his and Ford's close friend Harry Carey Sr., a Western film icon who had passed away a few years before.
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