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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 spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adopted nephew (Jeffrey Hunter).
Hunter as Martin Pawley in The Searchers. Hunter's career was revitalized when he successfully lobbied John Ford to cast him as the second lead in The Searchers (1956), supporting John Wayne. Disney borrowed him to play William Allen Fuller in the Civil War action movie The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), opposite Fess Parker.
In 1956, he played the chief villain, a Comanche chieftain called Scar, in John Ford's The Searchers. The following year he portrayed Jesse James in Hell's Crossroads. In 1958, he portrayed Acacius Page in Auntie Mame and on television starred in the episode "The Tall Man" of the NBC anthology series Decision.
When I was the movie reviewer for The Albuquerque Tribune from the late '70s into the mid '80s, I'd see two to four films a week. ... But the list usually includes "The Searchers," a 1956 John ...
Vera June Miles (née Ralston; born August 23, 1929) is an American retired actress.She is known for appearing in John Ford's Western films The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and for playing Lila Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Richard Franklin's sequel Psycho II (1983).
Foremost among his collaborations with Wayne and Ford in The Searchers, the 1956 classic Western in which Worden portrayed his most memorable role, that of "Mose Harper," the Shakespearean fool who only longed for "a roof over [his] head and a rocking chair by the fire." Worden's best performances were given for demanding directors.
Director John Ford's classic western The Searchers, widely seen as one of the best American films of all time, failed to receive a single nomination. This was the second time since the introduction of the Supporting Actor and Actress awards that Best Picture, Best Director, and all four acting Oscars were given to different films.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 7th Cavalry: Joseph H. Lewis: Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale, Jay C. Flippen: Western: Columbia Pictures: 23 Paces to Baker Street: Henry Hathaway: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker