The Searchers [BLU-RAY]

A classic Western regarded by many as the best of the genre John Fords THE SEARCHERS has been acknowledged by several directors who came into their own in the 1970s including Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Paul Schrader and George Lucas as a powerful influence on their work. The film stars John Wayne as Ethan Edwards a casehardened Civil War veteran returning to his brother Aarons (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward Bond) arrives to raise a posse to run down the Comanche who have stolen the cattle of neighbour Lars Jorgenson (John Qualen) Ethan is among those who join him. They return to find the Edwards family slaughtered and the two girls Lucy (Pippa Scott) and Debbie (Lana Wood then Natalie Wood) missing. The posse continues to search for the girls but turns back as winter settles in. However Ethan and his reluctantly accepted companion Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter) the girls partCherokee stepbrother press on for another seven years with the Indianhating veteran becoming ever more fanatical as the hard seasons pass. In his epic meditation on racism obsession paranoia and the myth of the West Ford explores the ugly underside of a genre that he had imbued with optimism in his early career. Wayne gives perhaps his most powerful performance as the embittered Edwards but its the visual poetry of what are possibly Fords most carefully framed lit and composed images that shape this masterwork from beginning to end. As Wayne walks through the doorway at the films end he grabs his elbow in a tribute to his and Fords close friend Harry Carey Sr. a Western film icon who had passed away a few years before.

The Searchers [Blu-ray] [1956] [Region Free]

• Product Type: Blu-ray
• Barcode: 7321900115322
• Release Date: June 12, 2007

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