The Searchers

[cuttock]

One of the most powerful scenes ever in motion picture history, delivered by one of the greatest.

[JoeWR79]

Best acting of The Duke, best acting ever, he was one of a kind.

The Duke will be remembered forever.

[thaines]

Best single piece of acting Wayne ever did.

[cuttock]

Powerful magnificent acting by Wayne. Searing.

[HarveyCartwright]

Racist movie.

[jkoff76]

Ford was bisexual, but Richard Boone, isn't that the guy from Big Jake??? Ech, thanks for that visual !!

[grabit1]

@jkoff76 Wait now. Ford was bisexual? You're answering a Ford scholar when you respond to this question, so do good or do nothing. 

[jkoff76]

And so is the guy bending you over your keyboard!!

[jkoff76]

There were. A lot of Indians were cast as extras in the film and Ford filmed it in Monument Valley so the Indians would get Union Wages!!

[AnneFrederick7]

One of the best movies...!

[sirormadame]

Anti-racist movie.

[glengarry46]

The film is based on the 1836 Ft. Parker Massacre in Texas when Commanches kidnapped Cynthia Ann Parker. After years of rejecting requests for her return, her uncle rescued her but she had forgotten her family and couldn't adjust. She died soon after her 3 children died of influenza. Another woman Rachel Plummer was also taken, but her 6 week old baby slowed her down, so the indians smashed him on the ground, she revived him but they dragged him through cactus until he was torn to shreds.

[jkoff76]

"What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture! Spell it out!"

Anyone who thinks that John Wayne was a One Trick Pony, should watch this!!

[cuttock]

hell yeah. Wayne rocked.

[elrustito]

What a great scene.

[zombie69wolf]

lambecome, this scene is in this movie. its a outstanding scene and fits the movie perfectly. I would have done this myself had i been in that situation.

Long live the Duke!

[Iambecome]

I have not seen this film, but I hear there's a scene where someone shoots out an Indian's eyes, because in his religion, that means he will wander forever blind in the afterlife.

What religion is this?

I am an athiest, but I still think it is profoundly disturbing to do such a thing.

[rdemeyere]

I don't remember such a scene being part of the movie. At the end of the movie, the chief who was responsible for the death of his relatives is killed and scalped by the Wayne character. Here in the US, it is on cable a couple of times a year. John Wayne considered it his best movie. I agree. The movie is pretty frank about the savage attitudes that existed on both sides. While religion is part of the movie, this is really a movie about revenge.

[thisisastupidusernam]

That would be Wayne's character (Ethan Edwards), earlier on in the film. Edwards carries a profound hatred for the Indians (particularly for the Comanches) through the whole film, to the extent that his intention when he finds his kidnapped niece is not to rescue her, but to kill her (I suppose to "put her out of her misery," since to Edwards, being an Indian isn't really being alive).

[blochwaves]

This thread is really old I know, but the scene in question involves Wayne's character cutting out a dead Indian's eyes for just that reason

[Iambecome]

Thank you for the reply. Every day I checked this page at least 12 times, for ten months. It kept me up at night. Finally, finally, someone answered! *weeps*

[hoofpick8]

I believe he shoots the eyes out.

[dist1roadwarrior]

Watch the film. It was great, like most of Ford's were.

[redtildead]

Who said John Wayne couldn't act? Harry Carey Jr stupid bugger. (I just want an old rocking chair by the fire)