| The Searchers | |
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| Directed by | John Ford |
| Produced by | C.V. Whitney |
| Written by | Alan Le May (novel) Frank S. Nugent |
| Starring | John Wayne Jeffrey Hunter Natalie Wood |
| Music by | Stan Jones (title song) Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | Winton C. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney ( February 20 1899 - December 13 1992) was an American Businessman, Film producer Alan Le May ( January 3, 1899 - April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer most remembered for the novels upon which the motion Frank Stanley Nugent (born New York City 27 May 1908- died 29 December 1965 was an American Journalist, Film reviewer, John Wayne ( May 26, 1907 &ndash June 11, 1979) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning American Jeffrey Hunter ( November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was a film and television actor Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, also billed as Natasha Gurdin ( July 20, 1938, San Francisco, California Stan Jones ( June 5, 1914 &ndash December 13, 1963) was an American Songwriter. This article is about the film composer For other persons with the same name see Max Steiner. Hoch, ASC |
| Editing by | Jack Murray |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | March 13, 1956 |
| Running time | 119 min. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
The Searchers is a 1956 epic Western film directed by John Ford, which tells the story of Ethan Edwards, a bitter, middle-aged loner and Civil War veteran played by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The Epic Western is a sub- Genre of the Western movie. An archetypical example is Once Upon a Time in the West, a lengthy revenge Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South John Wayne ( May 26, 1907 &ndash June 11, 1979) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning American
While a modest commercial success upon its 1956 release, The Searchers was ignored by the Academy and certainly not regarded as a classic. An academy ( Greek Ἀκαδημία is an institution of higher learning research or honorary membership In recent years, however, the film's prestige has risen and it is now widely acknowledged as one of the best westerns ever made. It also placed 12th on the American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top 100 greatest movies of all time. The American Film Institute ( AFI) is an independent Non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 [1]
In 1989, the United States National Film Registry's first year of selecting films for preservation, The Searchers was one of the twenty-five films to be deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The National Film Registry is the registry of Films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of
Now a highly influential film, it has inspired other Westerns as well as dramas, science fiction, and even Bollywood films. The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. Bollywood (बॉलीवूड بالی وڈ is the informal term popularly used for the Mumbai -based Hindi-language Film industry in India
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Plot
The year is 1868. Ethan returns from the American Civil War, in which he fought for the Confederacy, to his brother's house in rural Texas. The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and CSA) formed as the government set up from 1861 No one knows what he's been doing for the past three years (since the war ended), but despite hints that Ethan has been up to no good, no one asks, though the local Ranger Captain, (who is also the local preacher) dourly observes "you fit a lot of descriptions" (on wanted posters); moreover, Ethan has a medal that suggests he has been in Mexico during the period of the Emperor Maximilian. Maximilian I Emperor of Mexico (Emperador Maximiliano I de México (6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867 (born Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph was a member of Austria Shortly after his arrival, a Comanche raid leaves his brother and sister-in-law dead, his nephew dead, his two nieces abducted, and the family homestead burned down. The Comanche are a Native American ethnic group whose range (the Comancheria) consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southern Colorado With his brother’s adopted son, Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), who is part Indian, part white, Ethan pursues the Comanche to rescue the girls. Jeffrey Hunter ( November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was a film and television actor For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States.
Ethan soon finds the murdered body of the older girl, Lucy, and Lucy's fiance dies in a fruitless attempt to avenge her. Ethan and Martin continue to search for the other girl, Debbie, a search that lasts for five years. During that time, she grows into adolescence and is taken as mate by Scar (Henry Brandon), the chief of the Nawyecka band of Comanche. Henry Brandon ( June 8 1912 – February 15 1990) was an American Character actor in over 100 films famous for playing Scar is presented as the cultural mirror image of Ethan. He hates whites every bit as much as Ethan hates Indians. Once Ethan realizes that Debbie has been mated to Scar, he undergoes a change. He no longer wants to rescue Debbie; he wants her dead, believing that a white woman being a Comanche's "squaw" is worse than death. Martin follows in hopes of stopping Ethan from killing the girl. Eventually Ethan, Martin, and the Texas Rangers find Debbie. Martin kills Scar and Ethan scalps the dead chief. Martin tries to prevent Ethan from killing Debbie, but it is Ethan himself who realizes how close he has come to destroying the last link to his tragic family. Instead of killing Debbie, he lifts her in his arms just as he did when she was a child. Ethan brings Debbie to the safety of friends and then walks away. The film, which opened with a near-identical shot of another doorway, slowly revealing the film's landscape, finishes with a reversal: the film's players enter the darkness within the doorway, and the door closes, just before the end title, leaving Ethan isolated outside where he turns and wanders away from the home and family he can have no part in.
Production
The Searchers was originally produced by C.V. Whitney, directed by John Ford, and distributed by Warner Brothers. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney ( February 20 1899 - December 13 1992) was an American Businessman, Film producer Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and The film starred John Wayne, who was the only actor Ford ever considered for the lead in the movie. John Wayne ( May 26, 1907 &ndash June 11, 1979) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning American
Ford from the onset strove to make a movie unlike any made before it in Hollywood. Wayne had played outlaw characters before (the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach), but never one as driven and borderline psychotic as Ethan Edwards - indeed, Edwards is played as hovering on the verge of a complete breakdown. For other meanings see Stagecoach (disambiguation. A stagecoach (also called diligence) is a type of four-wheeled enclosed Jonathan Lethem said of Wayne’s portrayal of Edwards that he was “tormented and tormenting . . . his fury is righteous and ugly, at once, resentment branded as a fetish. ”[2] His racism and hatred are so open that they sear the viewer, and Ford intended it so. His own comments make clear he is seeking to portray the racism of white America that led to the genocide practiced against Native Americans. [3]. Lethem also writes of his first look at The Searchers, “Weren’t Westerns supposed to be simple? This film was anything but, lush and portentous. ”. [2]
While the movie was primarily set in the staked plains (Llano Estacado) of Northwest Texas, it was actually filmed in Monument Valley, Utah. Llano Estacado ( Sp /ˈʎano ˌestəˈkado/ " Palisaded Plains" is a region in the southwestern United States that encompasses parts of Eastern New Monument Valley is located on the southern border of Utah with northern Arizona (around) The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States. Additional scenes were filmed in Mexican Hat, Utah, and in Bronson Canyon in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. Mexican Hat is a Census-designated place (CDP on the San Juan River in south-central San Juan County, Utah, United States. Bronson Canyon is a section of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California that has become famous as a filming location for a very large number of movies
The film was one of the first shot in the VistaVision widescreen process. VistaVision is a variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format created by Paramount Pictures in 1954 based on the Glamorama and Superama
Real-life inspiration
Several film commentators have suggested that The Searchers was inspired by the 1836 kidnapping of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker by Comanche warriors who raided her family's home at Fort Parker, Texas. Cynthia Ann Parker, or Naduah (also sometimes spelled "Nadua" and "Nauta"{b The Comanche are a Native American ethnic group whose range (the Comancheria) consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southern Colorado [4] She spent twenty-four years with the Comanches, married a war chief, and had three children, only to be rescued against her will by the Texas Rangers. James W. Parker, Cynthia Ann's uncle, spent much of his life and fortune in what became an obsessive search for his niece, like Ethan Edwards in the film. In addition, the rescue of Cynthia Ann, during a Texas Ranger attack known as the Battle of Pease River, resembles the rescue of Debbie Edwards when the Texas Rangers attack Scar's village. The Battle of Pease River occurred on December 18, 1860, near the town of Margaret Texas in Foard County Texas, United States.
Parker's story was one of 64 real-life cases of 19th-century child abductions in Texas that author Alan Le May studied while researching the novel on which the film was based. Alan Le May ( January 3, 1899 - April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer most remembered for the novels upon which the motion His surviving research notes indicate that the two characters who go in search of a missing girl were inspired by Brit Johnson, an African-American teamster who ransomed his captured wife and children from the Comanches in 1865. [5] Afterward, he made at least three trips to Indian Territory and Kansas relentlessly searching for another kidnapped girl, Millie Durgan (or Durkin), until Kiowa raiders killed him in 1871. [6]
Near the end of the story, Debbie’s apparent willingness to leave Scar’s household with Marty represents a significant departure from most historical models. In real life, abducted children who spent more than a year with the Comanches typically became highly assimilated and did not want to leave their adoptive people.
In the film, Scar’s Comanche group is referred to as the Nawyecka. The more common names for this Comanche division (with whom Cynthia Ann Parker lived) are Nokoni or Nocona.
Some film critics have speculated that the historical model for the cavalry attack on a Comanche village, resulting in Look’s death and the taking of Comanche prisoners to a military post, was the well-known Sand Creek massacre of 1864. The Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre or the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an incident in The sequence also resembles the 1872 Battle of the North Fork of the Red River, in which the 4th Cavalry captured 124 Comanche women and children and imprisoned them at Fort Concho. The 4th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army Cavalry Regiment, whose lineage is traced back to the mid-19th century Fort Concho is a National Historic Landmark owned and operated since 1935 by the city of San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County in West Texas
At one point in the story, Ethan Edwards and Martin Pawley receive information about Debbie's whereabouts from a trader named Jeremiah Futterman, who is portrayed as venal. However, several real-life frontier traders, including Marcus Goldbaum and Jesse Chisholm, attempted to recover kidnapped children without expectation of reward. Jesse Chisholm (1805? - March 4, 1868) was an Indian trader guide and interpreter born in the Hiwassee region of Tennessee, probably in 1805
Cast and character description
- John Wayne – Ethan Edwards; Wayne played his most difficult role as the racist Civil War veteran who hates practically everyone - but Indians in particular. John Wayne ( May 26, 1907 &ndash June 11, 1979) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning American After he discovers that his niece Debbie has mated with an Indian, he intends to kill her.
- Jeffrey Hunter – Martin Pawley; the adopted son of Ethan's brother, he is part Indian, and undertakes the search with Edwards to save his adoptive sister from the Comanche and, later, from Ethan. Jeffrey Hunter ( November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was a film and television actor
- Vera Miles – Laurie Jorgensen; Pawley's sweetheart, she gets just one letter in five years from him. Vera Miles (born Vera June Ralston; August 23, 1929) is an American actress known from such classic films as The Searchers
- Ward Bond – Rev. Ward Edwin Bond ( April 9 1903 – November 5 1960) was an American film Actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton; preacher and Texas Ranger captain who notes that Edwards "fits a lot of descriptions" (on wanted posters).
- Natalie Wood – Debbie Edwards (older); Ethan Edwards's niece, carried off by Comanches when she is a child, she married Chief Scar when she grows up. Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, also billed as Natasha Gurdin ( July 20, 1938, San Francisco, California Natalie Wood's younger sister, Lana Wood, plays Debbie as a child. Svetlana Nikolaevna Gurdin (born March 1, 1946) better known as Lana Wood, is an American Actress and producer born
- John Qualen – Lars Jorgensen; a Scandinavian immigrant, and father of Laurie. John Qualen ( December 8, 1899 - September 12, 1987) was a Canadian film Character actor.
- Olive Carey – Mrs. Olive Carey ( January 31, 1896 - March 13, 1988) was an American film and television actress Jorgensen; American-born wife of Lars and mother of Laurie.
- Henry Brandon – Chief Cicatrice (Scar); chief of the Nawyecka band of Comanche; the abductor of the girls. Henry Brandon ( June 8 1912 – February 15 1990) was an American Character actor in over 100 films famous for playing
- Ken Curtis – Charlie McCorry; a hayseed cowboy who intends to marry Laurie Jorgensen. Ken Curtis ( July 2, 1916 - April 28, 1991) was an American singer and Actor best known for his role as " Festus Haggen
- Harry Carey, Jr. – Brad Jorgensen; engaged to the older Edwards sister. Harry Carey Jr (born Henry G Carey; May 16, 1921) is an American Film actor.
- Antonio Moreno – Emilio Figueroa; a Comanchero, he leads Ethan Edwards at last to Scar. Antonio "Tony" Moreno ( September 26, 1887 - February 15, 1967) was a notable Actor and Film director of
- Hank Worden – Mose Harper; half-mad cowhand who helps locate Debbie. Hank Worden (born Norton Earl Worden) ( 23 July 1901 Rolfe Iowa - 6 December 1992 Los Angeles California
- Beulah Archuletta – Wild Goose Flying in the Night Sky (Look); Indian woman married to Martin through his misunderstanding.
Ford originally wanted to cast Fess Parker, whose performance as Davy Crockett on television had helped spark a national craze, in the Jeffrey Hunter role but Walt Disney, to whom Parker was under contract, refused to allow it, according to Parker's videotaped interview for the Archive of American Television. Fess Elisha Parker Jr (born August 16, 1924) is an American film and television Actor best known for his 1950s portrayals of Davy Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier is a 1955 live-action Walt Disney Adventure film starring Fess Parker as Colonel David Stern Crockett ( August 17, 1786 March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American Folk hero, A coonskin cap is a cap fashioned from the skin and fur of a Raccoon. Jeffrey Hunter ( November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was a film and television actor Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter The Archive of American Television is a division of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the Parker notes that this was by far his single worst career reversal.
Release
Critical interpretations
Plot
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Many reviewers see a powerful, albeit unspoken, factor in the plot. These reviewers maintain that Ethan Edwards is clearly in love with his brother's wife Martha. These same reviewers state it is this love (clearly mutual, as witness the scene in which Captain Clayton notices Martha stroking Ethan's coat) which drives Ethan initially both toward rescue and toward revenge. In terms of the dramatic action of the film, these reviewers maintain it is by far the strongest initiator of behavior on the lead character's part. Those espousing this theory allege that the most startling part of this plot undercurrent is that there is not one word of dialog alluding to the relationship and feelings between Ethan and Martha, despite the importance of those factors to the plot. Every reference to this relationship is visual. [7][8][9]
Themes
Ford made an effort in this movie to examine the issues of racism and genocide towards Native Americans. Ford's was not the first film to attempt this, nor the most polished as regards the effort, but it was startling (particularly for later generations) in the harshness of its approach toward that racism. Ford's examination of racism starts with the racism of his hero. (That "hero" is hardly conventional. ) Indeed, Wayne's Ethan Edwards hates practically everyone, but reserves a special bile for Indians. [10] And it is this openly virulent hatred of Native Americans by the lead character which opens the door for the movie to examine racism as an excuse for the genocide of the Indians. Emanuel Levy says "It's a rare attempt to deal head-on with the problem and roots of racism in American life. "[11]. Perception of the film has evolved steadily over the years as people more willingly examine as a society the horrific treatment of Native Americans by the white culture. Roger Ebert says in a somber analysis of this movie: "In The Searchers I think Ford was trying, imperfectly, even nervously, to depict racism that justified genocide. Roger Joseph Ebert (iːbɝt born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and Screenwriter. "[12]
John Ford, as his interviews give evidence, unquestionably felt strongly about the plight of the Native Americans, and the way that white society had smashed their culture and thrown them aside. His landmark work The Searchers was an attempt to examine how this plight had come to pass, and how racism had turned into genocide. [3]
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The theme of miscegenation also runs through this movie. Ethan says repeatedly that he will kill his niece rather than have her live “with a buck. ” He says “living with the Comanche ain’t living. ” Even one of the movie’s gentler characters, Vera Miles’s Laurie, tells Martin when he explains he must protect his adoptive sister, that “Ethan will put a bullet in her brain. I tell you Martha would want him to. ” This outburst made clear that even the supposedly gentler characters were thoroughly tainted by racism and the fear of miscegenation. [3] It is instructive to note that Ford made an attempt in this movie to deal with subjects and themes which were quite controversial for that time in America. His own words express what he was attempting to do. In a 1964 interview with Cosmopolitan magazine he said:
- “There’s some merit to the charge that the Indian hasn’t been portrayed accurately or fairly in the Western, but again, this charge has been a broad generalization and often unfair. Cosmopolitan is the best-selling young women's magazine in the world The Indian didn’t welcome the white man. . . and he wasn’t diplomatic. . . If he has been treated unfairly by whites in films, that, unfortunately, was often the case in real life. There was much racial prejudice in the West. [3].
The story of Cynthia Parker, which so many reviewers find as the real-life inspiration for this movie, is instructive. Ostensibly rescued in an attack on an Indian band virtually identical to the one shown in this movie, she starved herself to death when her white relatives refused to let her find her sole surviving child. Yet to this day, her rescue is considered a “victory” in the Indian Wars. Indeed, Sul Ross's report about the "Battle" in which he recaptured Cynthia Parker is instructive, after killing women and children indiscriminately, he reports:
- "So single a victory had never before been gained over the fierce and war like Comanches; and never since that fatal December day in 1860 have they made any military demonstrations at all commensurate with the fame of their proud campaigns in the past. Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross (September 27 1838 January 3 1898 was the 19th Governor of Texas, a Confederate States Army general during the The great Comanche confederacy was forever broken. "[13]
In summing up the social impact of this movie Arthus Eckstein says,
- "The Searchers has obsessed many filmmakers, critics, and scholars in a manner unusual even for those with a passionate love of cinema. . . The Searchers is one of those rare films that reveals something new with every viewing. . . The Searchers is so dense with meaning the only way to understand it is to slow the projection time to equal the five year diegetic time. "[14]
Reception
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In 1989, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry. The Library of Congress is the De facto National library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress The National Film Registry is the registry of Films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of
The Searchers is often cited as a candidate for the greatest film of all time, such as the Sight and Sound poll of the greatest films ever made. While there is no agreement upon the greatest Film of all time many publications and organizations have tried to determine the films considered the greatest ever. Sight & Sound ( is a British monthly Film Magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI In 1972, The Searchers was voted in eighteenth place then fifth place in 1992 and in 2002 it was in eleventh place.
The 2007 American Film Institute 100 Greatest American Films list included The Searchers in twelfth place. The American Film Institute ( AFI) is an independent Non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 AFI’s 100 Years100 Movies — 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of 100 Years… 100 Movies. The Searchers is a favorite of Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Ramesh Sippy, James Robert Baker, Brent Spiner, Quentin Tarantino and John Milius. George Walton Lucas Jr (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award -winning American Film director, producer, Screenwriter Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (Hon (born December 18 1946 is an American Film director, Screenwriter and producer. Ramesh Sippy (ر ميش سپي (b January 23, 1947 in Karachi) is an Indian Film director, best known for directing the popular and James Robert Baker (October 18 1946 – November 5 1997 was an American author of sharply satirical predominantly gay-themed Transgressional fiction. Brent Jay Spiner (born February 2, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the Android Lieutenant Commander Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an Academy Award - BAFTA Award - and Palme d'Or -winning Emmy - and John Frederick Milius (born April 11, 1944) is an American Screenwriter, director, and producer of Motion pictures
Entertainment Weekly ranked The Searchers as the thirteenth greatest movie of all time, as well as the greatest western of all time. Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc
Popular film website, They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? currently ranks it 7th. [15]
Influence, homage, and allusion
The Searchers has influenced films as diverse as Taxi Driver, Paris, Texas, Star Wars, Dances with Wolves, Hardcore, The Wind and the Lion, Saving Private Ryan, and Apocalypse Now. Taxi Driver is a film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Paris Texas is a 1984 Film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L Star Wars is an epic Space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas during the 1970s and significantly expanded Dances with Wolves is a 1990 Epic film which tells the story of a United States Lieutenant who travels to the American Frontier to find a military post Hardcore is a 1979 film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring George C The Wind and the Lion is a 1975 Adventure film. It was directed by John Milius and starred Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 War film set during the invasion of Normandy during World War II.
David Lean watched the film repeatedly while preparing for Lawrence of Arabia (1962) to help him get a sense of how to shoot a landscape. Sir David Lean KBE ( 25 March, 1908 &ndash 16 April, 1991) was an English Film director and producer Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 Epic film based on the life of T The entrance of Ethan Edwards in The Searchers across a vast prairie is echoed clearly in the across-the-desert entrance of Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia.
Sergio Leone, a noted Ford admirer, mentioned The Searchers as one of his favorite films and referenced it in a key scene of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Sergio Leone ( January 3, 1929 &ndash April 30, 1989) was an Italian Film director. Once Upon a Time in the West ( Italian title C'Era una Volta il West) is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western It was also referenced in a similar scene in the Bollywood film Sholay. Bollywood (बॉलीवूड بالی وڈ is the informal term popularly used for the Mumbai -based Hindi-language Film industry in India Sholay ( Hindi: शोले Urdu: شعلے ( English: Embers or Flames) is an Indian Hindi film by
George Lucas alludes to the film in his Star Wars movies. George Walton Lucas Jr (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award -winning American Film director, producer, Screenwriter In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the burning of Luke Skywalker's home parallels visually and narratively the burning of the homestead in The Searchers; also the framing of the shots through the opening of the cave where R2-D2 is hiding, when Obi-Wan Kenobi first appears, directly matches the framing of the screen shots of Ethan Edwards' reunion with his niece, Debbie. Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (originally released as Star Wars) is a 1977 Space opera Luke Skywalker is the main protagonist of the Star Wars universe portrayed by Mark Hamill in the films Star Wars Episode IV R2-D2 (called R2, or " Artoo " for short is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, an Astromech droid Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Fictional character in the Star Wars universe. Another direct quote comes in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones when Anakin Skywalker approaches the Tusken Raider settlement to rescue his mother, a scene which is framed in the exact same manner as Ethan Edwards surveying the Comanche camp before rescuing Debbie. Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones is a 2002 Film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales See also Darth Vader Anakin Skywalker (often called Ani by his friends and loved ones is the main Protagonist / Antagonist and Tusken Raiders (or Sand People) are fictional creatures in the Star Wars saga The Comanche are a Native American ethnic group whose range (the Comancheria) consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southern Colorado
The movie is referenced to by the character of Ed in the Northern Exposure episode "Soapy Sanderson" when conversing with a couple of film students on the topic of cinema technique. Northern Exposure is a Dramedy series. It was created by Brand - Falsey Productions which was recognized with a rare pair of consecutive
Other films, such as Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (which references the final shot of The Searchers), and 10000 BC which shares not only similar direction but a similar story line, show direct influence as does work in other media, such as Jonathan Lethem's novel Girl in Landscape which cites the film as inspiration in its jacket copy. Dominion Prequel to the Exorcist is a 2005 horror / Thriller film directed by Paul Schrader. Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19 1964 is an American writer John Wayne's catchphrase in the film, "That'll be the day", inspired Buddy Holly to write his hit song of the same name. A catch phrase (or catchphrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley (September 7 1936 – February 3 1959 was an American Singer-songwriter and a pioneer of Rock and roll. " That'll Be The Day " is a song written by Garth Salisbury and Buddy Holly and performed by various artists including Buddy Holly and The
References
- ^ AFI's website listing Top 100 films
- ^ a b Jonathan Lenthem, "Defending The Searchers " on brentonpriestly.com
- ^ a b c d Brenton Priestly, "Race, Racism and the Fear of Miscegenation" on brentonpriestly.com
- ^ Dan Schneider, "DVD review: The Searchers " on blogcritics.org is one example. John Milius also makes this point in a documentary about the production, although film historian Edward Buscombe observes in The Searchers (London: British Film Institute, 2000), p. 71, that Milius “gives no evidence for this assertion. ”
- ^ "Brit Johnson, The Real Searcher", American History magazine, June 2007, p. 64.
- ^ "Negro Brit Johnson, Dennis Cureton & Paint Crawford" on forttours.com
- ^ Studlar, Gaylyn. "What Would Martha Want? Captivity, Purity, and Feminine Values in The Searchers," in Eckstein & Lehman, pp. 179-182
- ^ Eckstein, Arthur M. "Incest and Miscegenation in The Searchers (1956) and The Unforgiven (1959)", in Eckstein & Lehman, p. 200
- ^ Lehman, Peter. "'You Couldn't Hit It on the Nose': The Limits of Knowledge in and of The Searchers," in Eckstein & Lehman, pp. 248, 263
- ^ John Puccio, "The Searchers (Speecial Edition DVD)" review from DVDTown.com
- ^ Emanuel Levy, "Film Review: The Searchers" from emanuellevy.com
- ^ Roger Ebert, "The Searchers (1956) ,Chicago Sun-Times, November 25, 2001 on rogerebert.com.
- ^ J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations
- ^ Eckstein, Arthur M. and Lehman, Peter, (Eds.), The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western, Wayne State University Press, 2004 ISBN-10 0814330568 ISBN-13 978-0814330562
- ^ "The Top 100 films" on theyshootpictures.com
External links
- The Searchers at the Internet Movie Database
- Tim Dirks, The Searchers (1956), review on filmsite.org
- Dan Schneider, "DVD Review: The Searchers " May 07, 2007 on blogcritics.org
- Bibliography
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