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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).
In one of my favorite scenes, the two men are sitting on Del's trunk on the side of the freeway, facing away from their battered vehicle, when a cigarette Del has dropped sets the car ablaze.
Alex Cox's film Searchers 2.0 (2007) is about a road trip to Monument Valley. The final scenes feature a rare depiction of the area covered in snow. Jacques Mesrine and his mistress were arrested near Monument Valley in the film Mesrine (2008). Location sequences for the documentary Reel Injun (2009), on the history of Native Americans in the ...
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.
The melody of "Lorena" was used by composer Max Steiner to represent homecoming in various scenes in the 1956 western The Searchers. [citation needed] Composer David Buttolph used the melody to represent bittersweet parting at the end of the 1959 western The Horse Soldiers. [citation needed] The theme is also heard in the western The Last Hunt ...
A topless scene involving a then 16-year-old Thora Birch also would also likely raise eyebrows today. ... The Searchers, John Ford’s seminal 1956 western, was, on the one hand, a scathing ...
Even at the age of fifty-three, the durable stunt performer McGrath completed three separate horse fall and drag scenes for the 1956 John Wayne picture The Searchers not long after McGrath had barely recovered from having broken his back.
Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer.. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957). [1]