THE SEARCHERS 13

[46spoony]

I never got this movie. It's a cut above the usual John Wayne western drivel, but I can't see how anyone would think it is great. Has the usual phony looking sets and phony looking Indians in every Wayne film.

[thenicedudejay]

Natalie Wood was the cutest girl in the world !

[RWELLER99]

The ending was splendid. I really thought he would hurt Debby, though I doubt John Ford would have let that happen. From this day forward I loved Natalie Wood.

[huskvarsm]

Ah sweet sweet lauri "aka Vera miles" beautiful just beautiful and she got better the older grew.

[destroyer8604]

The part where he picks her up like a child when she was a child was what made this movie the best western ever made to me. You can see the love he has for her and she back. They brought Debbie home where she belongs

[en9nui]

Though not without drama, these climactic scenes--among the more overrated in American cinema--supposedly "work" only if the viewer has become convinced somehow that Ethan may intend to harm Debbie. But what viewer actually believes Ethan to be a madman? And the penultimate scene, with arrows being removed from Ward Bond's backside, seems extraneous and detracts from the finale's dignity.

[MrPirstel]

@en9nui You missed the whole buildup of the joke. They weren't pulling arrows from his backside, he was stabbed by Pat Waynes sabre. "Boy, you watch that knife".

[en9nui]

@MrPirstel Thanks for the clarification. But "Pat" Wayne? In any event, the scene involving W. Bond's backside strikes this viewer as extraneous and, like much of the supposed humor in this flick, too slapstick.

[omarskats3000]

that was great, thank you for posting!

"...that'll be the day" now i have to listen to the song :)

[SuperWillTurner]

great movie, gets me everytime.

[TulipXX]

Such an underated film. So many layers in this film.  One of Waynes best.

[meshanti]

Natalie Wood was hot

[wds777]

My favorite John Wayne movie of all time, thank u for sharing

[hantonjavi]

its a good movie for cryng actually

[homerunbaker1]

Not only is this greatest western ever made The Searchers is greatest movie ever made. John Ford-sheer genius!

[joelcarb]

this is a piece of shit...there is an hour n a half of my life i will never get back



[Flagellator1974]

@joelcarb

If you dont like it, dont watch it anymore. You dont need to acid this heavyer than earth movie.

Not the film is a piece of shit but your opinion.

Tell me please, what films do you like?

[zabardasti]

This is a hideous movie!

[Itxoiten1]

Una absoluta obra mestra, una de les millors pel.lícules de la història.

On of the best film ever!

[madgab5]

John Ford's implication that Debbie is actually Ethan and Martha's illigitimate daughter, offers up a good reason why he'd search so long for her, and ultimately cannot bring himself to kill her. Wonderful movie.

[EverythingAustin]

@madgab5: Really I didn't know that. Was this a subtle hint in the film or something said in an interview?

[madgab5]

@EverythingAustin It comes from an interview John Wayne did in the 70's, and also from a John Ford interview.

[1915fas]

@madgab5 Yes. In a British interview Wayne defended Ethan's behaviour toward the Comanches by saying, 'They killed his wife. What would you do?'

[russellrvr]

I don't watch many movies, but at Christmas time there are always three movies I watch; The Searchers, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Lonley are the Brave. Been doing it for many years, couldn't say why.

[tmantho]

As a Texan born citizen I tear up with this movie. As the Searchers song is sung and as Ethan stands in the doorway he crosses his arms giving his old friend a tribute.

The Duke never forgot who taught him the cowboy ways.

[zipper179]

@tmantho You. too? For the longest, I hardly thought anyone else picked up on that, besides me! Damn! I wish I could shake your hand and buy you a drink..!

In the end, along with redemption, It's Ethan who rides away..

Olive Carey, Harry Carey's widow, literally wept, when John Wayne rubbed his arm, the way her husband use to do..

Sheer poetry..

[joelcarb]

@tmantho dont be a pussy. dont cry

[curiniul]

@tmantho I'm glad he didn't murder his niece, such nobility.

[deriter64]

@tmanthoHello. I'm personally a long remove from Texas but my grandmother was born in McGregor in the 19th Century and used to tell some fascinating, quiet stories about life then. We're supposed to be distantly related to Sam Houston and Governor Pat Neff, but who knows? You know what family oral histories are like. The point I'm making is that it's impossible to watch great movies like this without even the most distant roots tugging at you. All the best!

[mart77scole]

Thanks for posting this all time classic.

[zipper179]

And, with all that, life goes on, with or without Ethan..That's the west..America's story..

[MrBloodStains]

thanx wtbrooks from Malaysia. Keep up the posts coming

[seller559]

awesome!

[hantonjavi]

no hay palabras,esto era el cine

[mikey60077]

Adaptation of the book by Alan Lemay inspired by the real-life story of Cynthia Ann Parkerwho was kidnapped by Comanches, Kiowas and Caddoes at Parker's Fort on the Navasota River. She was renamed Naduah, & upon her maturation married Peta Nocona, war chief of the Naconi band. Recaptured in 1860, Naduah tried to return to her tribe but was held under guard & starved herself to death. Her son, Quanah Parker, became the last free war chief of the Comanches before 1875 tribal surrender- J. McBride

[MultiRan1]

Good post and movie...much obliged pard. Great story, cast and good direction. Ahhh westerns, they just sooth the inner part. Brings us back to the beginning. Men were men and women were pioneers. It brought out the best in people. Bad break for the Indians though. I guess the rule is if you cannot defend and protect it, you lose it. Eventually, they got even with all the land grants and Casinos even though it took a 100 years or so. Wt, keep up the good posts....trailherder.

[ShawDAMAN]

@MultiRan1 gimme a break. not to start an argument but if you think 'casinos' and 'land grants' constitute complete compensation (or getting even!!) for what happened to many of them, you are nuts... lol.

I don't like to dwell in the past but the whole thing was never 'made right' and never will be at least by men.

[luckeyhal]

THE DUKE THATS ALL YOU GOT TO NO

[Vaterlandforever]

john ford...th great duke....

a masterpiece... the best western of all times....

many thanks wtbrooks3...you are a great man too