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Vinony files it under 1956 American films, 1956 English-language films and 1956 films.
Its subject is documented across 46 Wikipedia language editions.
Film · TMDB
7.7As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Cast
- John Wayne as Ethan Edwards
- Jeffrey Hunter as Martin Pawley
- Vera Miles as Laurie Jorgensen
- Ward Bond as Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton
- Natalie Wood as Debbie Edwards
- John Qualen as Lars Jorgensen
Themes
- brother
- new mexico
- texas
- native american
- uncle
- racist
- prejudice
- racism
- massacre
- desert
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
101,104 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
87%
Metacritic
94/100
- Year
- 1956
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Western
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- 4 wins & 4 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- John Ford
- Screenplay by
- Frank S. Nugent
- Based on
- The Searchers , 1954 novel, by Alan Le May
- Starring
- John Wayne Jeffrey Hunter Vera Miles Ward Bond Natalie Wood
- Cinematography
- Winton C. Hoch
- Edited by
- Jack Murray
- Music by
- Max Steiner
- Production company
- C.V. Whitney Pictures
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- May 16, 1956 ( 1956-05-16 ) ( Chicago Theatre )
- Running time
- 119 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $3.75 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- John Ford
- Screenwriter
- Frank S. Nugent
- Cast member
- Nacho Galindo
- Composer
- Max Steiner
- Producer
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
- Production company
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Winton Hoch
- Narrative location
- Texas
- Filming location
- Utah
- Duration
- 119
- FilmAffinity ID
- 591096
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- The searchers Ford Trailer screenshot (13-crop).jpg
Show 12 more facts
- publication date
- 1956-05-26
- film editor
- Jack Murray
- title
- The Searchers
- production designer
- James Basevi
- distributed by
- Netflix
- Commons category
- The Searchers (film)
- after a work by
- Alan Le May
- budget
- 3750000
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 7.8/10
- capital cost
- 3750000
- different from
- The Searchers
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Encyclopedic overview
The Searchers is a 1956 American epic Western film directed by John Ford and written by Frank S. Nugent, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May. It is set during the Texas–Indian wars, and stars John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who, accompanied by his adopted Native American nephew (Jeffrey Hunter), spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood). It was shot in VistaVision on Eastmancolor negative with processing and prints by Technicolor.
The film was a critical and commercial success. Since its release, it has come to be considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. It was named the greatest American Western by the American Film Institute in 2008, and it placed 12th on the same organization's 2007 list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time. Entertainment Weekly also named it the best Western. The British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine ranked it as the seventh-best film of all time based on a 2012 international survey of film critics and in 2008, the French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma ranked The Searchers number 10 in their list of the 100 best films ever made.
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