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The Searchers - 50th Anniversary Special Edition |
The Searchers - 50th Anniversary Special Edition (SE / DVD) | Actors: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood
Director: John Ford
Rating: NR
Format: DVD
Language: English
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DVD Features: - Audio Commentary: Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich
- Documentaries: Behind the Cameras (4-parts): Meet Jeffrey Hunter, Monument Valley, Meet Natalie Wood, Setting Up Production
- Documentary: A Turning of the Eart: John Ford, John Wayne, and the Searchers
- Interviews: The Searchers: An Appreciation
- Introduction: Intro by Patrick Wayne
- Theatrical Trailer: The Searchers Trailer
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Trailer < / ul> Description: 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 imag
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