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The Searchers

[1956, Movie]

The Searchers: Review

"What makes a man to wander?/What makes a man to roam?/What makes a man leave bed and board and turn his back on home?/Ride away, ride away, ride away." This sad and beautiful song accompanies the opening credits of what may be the finest and most ambitious film from director John Ford, America's premier poet of the Western. Part of what makes this classic film so remarkable is that these questions are never answered directly--an oddity for a product of Hollywood where loos... read more

The Searchers: TV Guide News

Model Citizen Again Tops AFI's Best-films List | Today's News: Our Take | 6/21/2007
As revealed during Wednesday night's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition special, Citizen Kane held onto the top spot on the 100-best-movies list, followed by The Godfather (up a notch from the 1998 countdown). Casablanca slipped from No. 2 to a third ranking. Among the pics making big leaps were John Wayne's The Searchers (from No. 96 to 12), Raging Bull (from No. 24 to 4), Vertigo (No. 61 to 9) and Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (No. 76 to 11). read more
FlickChick | 9/8/2005
Actor Harry Carey Jr. is listed in the opening credits of Rio Bravo, but never appears in the read more

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Year: 1956
Rated NR

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Cast
John Wayne: Ethan Edwards
Jeffrey Hunter: Martin Pawley
Vera Miles: Laurie Jorgensen
Ward Bond: Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton
Natalie Wood: Debbie Edwards
John Qualen: Lars Jorgensen

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