The Searchers
In an incident that is the coolest in history, where members of a family following Edwards' brother are killed or kidnapped by the Commanche, which could make things worse. Veteran civil war veteran Ethan Edwards is trying to track down his surviving relatives and rescue them from the Indian tribe that could destroy them all.
23 July 1901, Rolfe, Iowa, USA
28 November 1911, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
July 4, 1901 in near Clarno Township, Lake County, South Dakota, USA
20 January 1920, Alliance, Nebraska, USA
24 December 1896, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
9 August 1906, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
1 March 1946, Santa Monica, California, USA
3 September 1923, Huntington Park, California, USA
2 February 1903, Mound City, Missouri, USA
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.
May 13, 2008
A mature, dark, ambivalent piece that helped pave the way for the modern western.
May 20, 2003
A rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come.
December 07, 2007
An absolute must see.
August 15, 2011
One of the better examples of the western genre.
September 16, 2007
A truly great western.
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.
September 01, 2009
Call Ethan one widescreen reminder of fear and guilt for a country that deserved at least one.
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
