The Searchers (Captioned)

United States, 1956

Film
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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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Credits

producer

Merian C. Cooper

production company

Warner Bros Pictures

director

John Ford

Duration

01:59:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1956

Collection metadata

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)

TMDB-Movie

3114

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