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Synopsis: 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,... [More]
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
The Searchers gets so close to greatness you can almost smell it. It's easy to see why Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, and many others have championed it.
A film that belongs to the category of so-called "important" movies - those which are remembered less by their own merit, and more by the way they influenced future film- makers.
Damn, this is Wayne's movie.
An absolute must see.
The minute The Searchers begins, it's impossible to look away.
A rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come.
Top CriticThe Searchers (1956) is considered by many to be a true American masterpiece of filmmaking, and the best and perhaps most-admired film of director John Ford.
No one could use Monument Valley locations like John Ford could.
Contains scenes of magnificence, and one of John Wayne's best performances.
Top CriticThe Searchers's reputation is so widely accepted that it's a surprise to discover that the film, and Wayne's character, are more complex than the reputation suggests.
On the scale of Westerns this is undoubtedly one of the most grand.
A powerful piece of filmmaking -- one of Ford's best works -- and I'd urge anyone who hasn't seen it to do so -- and decide for themselves what the film is or isn't saying
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.
Top CriticIf ever you need proof of the worth of the genre, you'll find it here.
Through the central image of the frontier, the meeting point of wilderness and civilization, Ford explores the divisions of our national character, with its search for order and its need for violence, its spirit of community and its quest for independence
a 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
One 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.
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