The Searchers. You're right, it may be the best film ever made, next to "The Quiet Man", that is.
I love "The Quiet Man", too, but "The Searchers" is my favorite.
I've watched it over and over, but I still cry every time I see the scene where Martha puts little Debbie out the window to hide from the Comanches. The way she breaks down and throws herself across the window ledge after the little girl just breaks my heart. It's so real. I believe that really happened back in those times - brave women knowing they were facing death and having to look into their children's eyes and then send them off to hide, maybe to get a chance to live. That one movie seems to me to embody all the pioneer strength of the people who moved West.
On another note, I read an article one time, or heard on AMC or TCM, that the phrase "That'll be the day" sort of took America by storm after John Wayne said it in this movie, and that Buddy Holly actually wrote his song "That'll be the Day" because of it. Don't know if that's true - I just read it or heard it somewhere.
Put a Amen on it!
It's a quiet I think I'll go talk a little treason.
It is a nice cottage. I think so.