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The Searchers
Things seem to be going wrong when members of his brother's family are killed or kidnapped by the Commanche, where veteran civil war veteran Ethan Edwards pledges to do the job that could save the rest of the family. Now, Edwards is trying to track down his surviving relatives and rescue them from the Indian tribe before they die.
23 July 1901, Rolfe, Iowa, USA
9 August 1906, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
8 December 1899, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
9 April 1903, Benkelman, Nebraska, USA
24 December 1896, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
10 November 1935, New York City, New York, USA
28 November 1911, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 September 1887, Madrid, Spain
16 August 1912, Arkansas, USA
9 November 1894, Madrid, New Mexico Territory, USA
2 February 1903, Mound City, Missouri, USA
2 July 1916, Lamar, Colorado, USA
August 15, 2011
One of the better examples of the western genre.
December 02, 2001
Contains scenes of magnificence, and one of John Wayne's best performances.
June 07, 2006
John Wayne at his best, striking cinematography and character ambiguity makes this a powerful and thought-provoking Wild West Odyssey.
December 07, 2007
An absolute must see.
May 13, 2008
A mature, dark, ambivalent piece that helped pave the way for the modern western.
February 09, 2006
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
September 16, 2007
A truly great western.
May 20, 2003
A rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come.
January 01, 2000
The final shot of this genuine epic says everything the Western ever had to say about the price of the American frontier and those forgotten bones upon which a nation was built.
June 27, 2007
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.
September 01, 2009
Call Ethan one widescreen reminder of fear and guilt for a country that deserved at least one.