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The Searchers [Blu-ray] | ![The Searchers [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513V0499M9L._SL160_.jpg) | Actors: John Wayne, Ward Bond, Jeffrey Hunter, Henry Brandon, Harry Carey Jr.
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $16.99
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Rating:  314 reviews
Sales Rank: 1186
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: BR111532
UPC: 085391115328
EAN: 0085391115328
ASIN: B000JLSM00
Theatrical Release Date: 1956
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| • | Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, a believer more in bullets than in words. He's seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness |
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Amazon.com essential video
A favorite film of some of the world's greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, John Ford's The Searchers has earned its place in the legacy of great American films for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it's the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western--the hero (or antihero) who must stand alone according to the unwritten code of the West. The story takes place in Texas in 1868; Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a Confederate veteran who visits his brother and sister-in-law at their ranch and is horrified when they are killed by marauding Comanches. Ethan's search for a surviving niece (played by young Natalie Wood) becomes an all-consuming obsession. With the help of a family friend (Jeffrey Hunter) who is himself part Cherokee, Ethan hits the trail on a five-year quest for revenge. At the peak of his masterful talent, director Ford crafts this classic tale as an embittered examination of racism and blind hatred, provoking Wayne to give one of the best performances of his career. As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of "savage" Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty (the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture) is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue. Still, this is undeniably one of the greatest Westerns ever made. --Jeff Shannon
A favorite film of some of the world's greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, John Ford's The Searchers has earned its place in the legacy of great American films for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it's the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western--the hero (or antihero) who must stand alone according to the unwritten code of the West. The story takes place in Texas in 1868; Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a Confederate veteran who visits his brother and sister-in-law at their ranch and is horrified when they are killed by marauding Comanches. Ethan's search for a surviving niece (played by young Natalie Wood) becomes an all-consuming obsession. With the help of a family friend (Jeffrey Hunter) who is himself part Cherokee, Ethan hits the trail on a five-year quest for revenge. At the peak of his masterful talent, director Ford crafts this classic tale as an embittered examination of racism and blind hatred, provoking Wayne to give one of the best performances of his career. As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of "savage" Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty (the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture) is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue. Still, this is undeniably one of the greatest Westerns ever made. --Jeff Shannon
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 Great movie and great customer service March 7, 2010
Jose Vazquez (Corona, New York, US)
Wow, great picture quality on this bluray. Shipping was really fast. I got it right away with no damage at all. Super great service!The Searchers [Blu-ray]
 A good I ndian is a dead Indian February 10, 2010
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This film is slightly better than most films with John Wayne, but in retrospective. A farm is attacked by some Indians. Everyone is killed except a very young girl who is taken along by the Indian chief. The film is the story of the tracking of this chief and the salvaging, retrieval and liberation of the girl who was made the chief's wife, one of them. It shows how the girl will, when found, ask for her fellow whites to consider her life is set and settled now and that she must be left to her lot. They will fail this first time but they will go on searching for her and they will finally trap the Indian community and they will demonstrate their great generosity by killing all the Indians and only recuperating the white girl by force. At the time when the film came out it was vindicating that genocidal treatment of Indians based on the myth that the whites had the right to take Indian land without even paying for it. Today it is a perfect demonstration how deep that genocidal spirit is engrained in the American consciousness of history. We have to celebrate the very recent decision of Congress to provide some Indians with reparations for the way they were treated, even after having been parked in reservations, as a miracle of faithfulness to the principles of the Declaration of Independence, for whose Founding Fathers there was no doubt that Indians and enslaved or indentured people, mostly Black, were not born equal, because they were not born human. The film shows how the dominant culture in the USA and in Hollywood used the genocide of the Indians as a good conscience builder among the whites who were engaged in so many wars all around the world against "minority races".
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Western Classic February 5, 2010
Michael Berg
Before directors had special effects to wow their audiences, they used scenery.
It's hard to beat Monument Valley for great eye candy, probably why John Ford used it in so many of his westerns.
Blu Ray brings back the detail of the big screen, amplifying the directors original intent.
Good script, good movie.
Great movie at a great price. February 1, 2010
D. Nooe
I had never seen this movie until recently and have been sucked in to watching it whenever it is on tv now. Great John Ford classic! I couldn't pass up this great deal.
Discover this film's true significance January 31, 2010
Jackson K. Eskew (USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
For a truly profound review of this film - one that goes beyond the tired clichés of identity politics, for example - see John Carroll's excellent The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited. In a chapter devoted to John Ford, Carroll writes at length on this film, going far beyond the superficial analyses offered here in the "Amazon.com essential video" review or any of the other reviews here, beyond those by Scorcese and Spielberg in the AFI appreciation video posted on youtube, and beyond those of any professional film critics I've read. Go to the book's page at isi dot org to read an interview with the author, at the bottom of the page.
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