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“In The Searchers, Ford not only achieves the pinnacle of the western – the most influential and exemplary movie genre in history, to which no other director contributed nearly as many canonical texts – but also inscribes within the film an astonishing critique of his own life’s work up until that point. A grand, brutal and fearless ...
Released in 1956, the film tells the story of Ethan Edwards, a Civil War veteran who embarks on a years-long quest to rescue his niece from a Comanche tribe. Filled with stunning cinematography, complex characters, and powerful themes, “The Searchers” continues to captivate audiences over 60 years after its release. The Plot
The classic Ford western, starring John Wayne as a hard-hearted frontiersman who spends years doggedly pursuing his niece, who was kidnapped by Indians. A si...
9 de jul. de 2020 · Título original: The searchers Dirección: John Ford País: Estados Unidos Año: 1956 Duración: 119 min. Reparto: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Centauros del desierto - Tu Cine Clasico SOBRE NOSOTROS
Three years after the Civil War, battle-scarred Confederate veteran Ethan Edwards returns to his brother Aaron's remote Texan homestead. But instead of finding peace, the taciturn soldier finds tragedy when the murderous raiding party of ruthless Comanche Chief Scar massacres his family, burns the ranch to the ground, and abducts his 9-year-old niece, Debbie.
THE MAKING OF ‘THE SEARCHERS’ As part of its promotion of Searchers in 1956, Warner Bros. produced and broadcast one of the very first behind-the-scenes, “making-of” programs in movie history—The Making Of The Searchers—which aired as an episode of its ongoing Warner Bros. Presents TV series.
The Searchers gives the lie to the supposed heroism of the Wild West mythos. John Wayne plays the same Indian-killing cowboy we've seen him play since the early 1930's, the image of a valiant savior come to rescue a bunch of white folks from the Native American menace, but here he plays it as explicitly racist, calling out the pathological nature of the traditional cowboy's racialized violence.
