The Searchers – 1956 Nominated as the greatest Western movie of all time, this film has a great performance by the amazing John Wayne. He portrays a middle aged Civil war veteran seeking to locate his missing niece. There are some beautiful vignettes of frontier life, and many subsequent film directors have acknowledged their debt to this film.
The Searchers
True Grit
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Shane
Silverado
Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Two Mules for Sister Sarah
The Magnificent Seven
As usual, you pick great pics to illustrate your threads. Not just the publicity shots we’ve seen ten million times.
Theere is one quality about The Searchers that’s rarely mentioned, and that is the utter weirdness of the late part of Wayne’s search. Some unusual landscapes, and a sense that Nathan is losing his grip. The climactic charge is a disappointment, but otherwise this is such a great movie.