The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) | John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter

The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) | John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter | The greatest western ever made...or at least equal to the best,

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	The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter Warner Home Video, 2006 average customer review:based on 257 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Working together for the 12th time John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into a landmark Western offering an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays an ex-Confederate soldier seeking his niece captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger thirst the elements or loneliness. And in his five-year search he encounters something unexpected: his own humanity. Beautifully shot by Winton C. Hoch thrillingly scored by Max Steiner and memorably acted by a wonderful ensemble including Jeffrey Hunter Vera Miles Natalie Wood and Ward Bond The Searchers endures as "a great film of enormous scope and breathtaking physical beauty" (Danny Peary Guide for the Film Fanatic).Running Time: 119 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. UPC: 085392891825 Manufacturer No: 28918

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A Classic Western

"The Searchers" is a film that has rightfully been condiered a classic with an ability to transition between playful humor and the darkness of the human heart. John Wayne's character is an ex-confederate veteran with a shadowy past few years. His main accompanying partner is a mixed white-native american portrayed by (Jeffrey Hunter) who was adopted by members of Wayne's family after Comanches murdered the former's family. Their goal is to find a girl abdupted by the Comanches after they killed several of Wayne's realtives. The film covers several years and a number of events ranging from almost comical incidents to violent encounters with both natives and whites.
While the main Comanche chief is a nasty and ruthless villian, other natives the characters meet along the way are peaceful. In fact, the U.S. cavalry doesn't get the very ideallook Ford had given them in his trilogy. In one winter scene, Wayne and Hunter find a village of possibly peaceful natives the cavalry massacred. The main lesson is that there were generally bad and generally fairly good people on both sides in the West.
Wayne's characterization seemes ones of his best that I've seen and yes he is darker than usual. He has racist tendencies (especially towards the Comanches that attacked some of his relatives) and is truthfully rather ruthless at times. Ultimately, the film ends pretty well and Wayne's character shows some signs of changing though not after taking the aduience on a fascinating journey in the American West.

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The greatest western ever made...or at least equal to the best,

It has always had the sobriquet "the greatest western ever made"... well, for once it probably it is true.
Famous director's favorite film... including Spielberg and Bergman to name two just to show you how different are they!
It shows the dark side of John Wayne as a mysterious character (what later Jimmy Stewart will do to perfection with the western films he starred on for director Anthony Mann) obsessed with doing his way in everything and it seems very much embittered by his confederate (no surrendered) background...
ALL the cast is perfect and the script is a marvel... add the masterfully direction... and there you have it. THE PERFECT WESTERN.

I guess it probably is because so many pieces fall in place in an effortlessly way...(or so it seems but beware... I do not think so... and never believed in luck... it has been said that LUCK must found you WORKING!... and that is what is feels to me a solid piece of craftsmanship built over years of shooting westerns...)

A must see.

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The Searchers

The Duke in one of his best! If you are a John Wayne fan and do'nt have the Searchers in your movie collection, you need to buy this. The Searchers is a very good western for the whole family.

Pleasantly Surprised

I've avoided this movie for years, but I was plasantly surprised when I finally viewed it. Most people talk about the complexity of John Wayne's character, but I disagree. I feel he wasn't complex at all.... just a cut and dried racist. Near the end of the movie he did become a little complex, but I think it was just a matter of conscience. What I really liked about the movie was the storyline and the scenery. ONe of my favorite movies is The Color Purple and there were scenes in The Searchers that I'm almost certain Speilberg had to have copied for the Color Purple. Especially the shot of the family on the porch at the beginning of the movie. It was so reminiscent of one of the final scenes in the Color Purple.

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movie review

my dad loved this when he got the movie, as this is his favorite john wayne western, and he loved the bonus material contained in the box.

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