Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) resolves to find his niece, abducted by Indians at the end of the Civil War. It is an odyssey which takes five years, by the end of which he plans to take revenge on the Indians for the friends and family he has lost. John Ford used sumptuous Monument Valley as a background for this, his most poetic and complex Western. Stars Vera Miles and a young Natalie Wood. Based on a novel by Alan Le May.
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ACMI Identifier
303854
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Adaptations
Closed captioning
Feature films
Feature films → Feature films - United States
Literature → American literature - Film and video adaptations
Westerns
Sound/audio
Captioned
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)