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Searchers (Blu-ray)
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Searchers (Blu-ray)
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| | | Blu-Ray Disc, Beyond High Definition.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, a believer more in bullets than in words. He's seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive, five-year quest, Ethan encounters something he didn't expect to find: his own humanity.Running Time: 119 min.Format: BLU-RAY DISC
"...unquestioned best of [John Wayne's] long and impressive career." Box Office Magazine
"...[a] beautifully filmed Western." Find-A-Video
"Superb Western saga..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"...a true American masterpiece of filmmaking, and the best and perhaps most-admired film of director John Ford." Tim Dirks, The Greatest Films
Editor's Note
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, Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader, and George Lucas, as a powerful influence on their work. The film stars John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, a case-hardened Civil War veteran returning to his brother Aaron's (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward Bond) arrives to raise a posse to run down the Comanche who have stolen the cattle of neighbor Lars Jorgenson (John Qualen), Ethan is among those who join him. They return to find the Edwards family slaughtered and the two girls, Lucy (Pippa Scott) and Debbie (Natalie Wood), missing. The posse continues to search for the girls but turns back as winter settles in. However, Ethan and his reluctantly accepted companion, Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), the girls' part-Cherokee stepbrother, press on for another seven years, with the Indian-hating veteran becoming ever more fanatical as the hard seasons pass. In his epic meditation on racism, obsession, paranoia, and the myth of the West, Ford explores the ugly underside of a genre that he had imbued with optimism in his early career. Wayne gives perhaps his most powerful performance as the embittered Edwards, but it's the visual poetry of what are possibly Ford's most carefully framed, lit, and composed images that shape this masterwork from beginning to end. As Wayne walks through the doorway at the film's end, he grabs his elbow in a tribute to his and Ford's close friend Harry Carey Sr., a Western film icon who had passed away a few years before.
Plot Summary
An embittered frontiersman engages in an extensive and obsessive search for his niece, abducted years ago by Indians who killed her family in retaliation for a massacre in their village.
| Features | A Turning Of The Earth: John Ford, John Wayne & The Searchers - 1998 Documentary Narrated By John Milius | | Audio Commentary By Director/John Ford Biographer Peter Bogdanovich | | Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital Mono | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Introduction By John Wayne's Son & The Searchers Co-Star Patrick Wayne | | New Featurette: The Searchers - An Appreciation | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound | | Vintage Behind The Cameras Segments From The Warner Bros. Presents TV Series |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 4/28/2009 |
| Running Time: 119 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1956 | | Catalog ID: 111532 | | UPC: 00085391115328 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Jeffrey Hunter | | John Wayne | | Vera Miles | | Ward Bond | | Alan Le May - Based On Novel By | | Frank Hotaling - Art Director | | Frank S. Nugent - Screenplay | | Jack Murray - Editor | | James Basevi - Art Director | | John Ford - Director | | Max Steiner - Original Music By | | Merian C. Cooper - Executive Producer | | Patrick Ford - Producer | | Winton C. Hoch - Cinematographer |
| Memorable Quotes| "That'll be the day."----Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) |
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