The Searchers
When members of his brother's family are killed or abducted by Comanches, Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards vows to track down his surviving relatives and rescue them from the Indian tribe.
31 January 1896, New York City, New York, USA
10 November 1935, New York City, New York, USA
2 July 1916, Lamar, Colorado, USA
12 April 1899, Muskogee, Indian Territory, USA [now Oklahoma, USA]
24 December 1896, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
23 August 1929, Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
3 September 1923, Huntington Park, California, USA
26 September 1887, Madrid, Spain
20 July 1938, San Francisco, California, USA
15 July 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 November 1926, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
8 December 1899, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
September 01, 2009
Call Ethan one widescreen reminder of fear and guilt for a country that deserved at least one.
December 07, 2007
An absolute must see.
May 20, 2003
A rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come.
June 07, 2006
John Wayne at his best, striking cinematography and character ambiguity makes this a powerful and thought-provoking Wild West Odyssey.
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.
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
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.
May 13, 2008
A mature, dark, ambivalent piece that helped pave the way for the modern western.
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 16, 2007
A truly great western.
