The Searchers (1956)

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    Quote from chester7777

    For those looking to beef up their Blu-ray collection of JW movies, Amazon is having a sale now through January 4th, and The Searchers on Blu-ray is currently on sale for $13.99.

    If you have a total order of $25 or more, it's FREE shipping!

    Chester :newyear:


    I found it(Blu-Ray version) at Sam's Club for $10.97 + tax. Great deal on a awesome looking movie in High Def!! Plus its a great movie to boot....

    Life is hard, its even harder when your stupid!!
    -John Wayne

    If I had to make any criticism of The Searchers it would be the casting of Dorothy Jordan as Martha. Her acting, (the wonderful scene with Ethan's coat is incredibly moving) can't be faulted, but she just doesn't have the strong prescence and magnetism to be the love of Wayne's life and the reason he came back. She's just too 'ordinary' to be the motivation for the whole movie and hardly gets any screen time anyway. Maybe that's what Ford wanted of course, and yes, I know she was the producer's wife and she also appeared in other Ford films.
    There's also the descrepancy between Lana Wood's "Faithfully fulfill" and Ward Bond's "Faithfully discharge". Haven't seen the screenplay but suspect Lana's line reading was accurate and Bond's ad-libbed? It would be typical of Ford to let it go rather than do another take and lose spontenaitey.

    I do not think the Martin Pauley references to being 1/8 cherokee and then 1/4 is a mistake. Martin says he is 1/8. It is Ethan that says 1/4. I think Ethan didn''t care enough to really take notice of martys percentage and just threw out a number. I often make similiar mistakes myself.

    Whiskey,
    We all make those mistakes but our lives aren't following a script,so
    I'm thinking it was a mistake in either the script or continuity.

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    Just read an interview with Fess Parker, who was aparently Ford's first choice for Martin Pawley. Parker at that time (just coming off Davy Crockett) was under personal contract to Walt Disney and Walt turned the part down without Parker ever knowing it was on offer! Parker only learned this from Walt when he and Jeffrey Hunter were driving to the location of 'The Great Locomotive Chase'.
    Its interesting to speculate how he would have been as Martin, and indeed how his subsequent career might have turned out...
    Interestingly, a few other Ford people as well as Hunter appear in 'The Great Locomotive Chase' - Harry Carey Jnr, Claude Jarman Jnr, and Stan Jones!
    Its a favourite of mine to this day!

    Well here we are all these years later and
    "The American Film Institute"
    Said that John Wayne and John Ford's Film Made almost 45 Years Ago,
    "The Searchers"
    ===========
    Is still the Best Western Film Ever Made !!
    :teeth_smile:
    So Here are some Film Clips from the film that I put up on YouTube, But you better Look at Them Fast Before They Make Me Take Them Down !!!
    :ohmy:
    Chilibill
    :cowboy:




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    These are great clips, his walk-off at the end of the movie is oscar material, and a tribute to Harry Carey Sr.
    Thank You
    Bill

    :film: " When the legend becomes fact print the legend"