The Searchers
These are the events we follow when members of Edwards' brother's family are killed or kidnapped by the Commanche. Things seem to get worse for the rest of the family, with veteran civil war veteran Ethan Edwards vowing to hunt down his surviving relatives and save them from the Indian tribe or be completely destroyed.
16 May 1921, Saugus, California, USA
26 September 1887, Madrid, Spain
3 September 1923, Huntington Park, California, USA
15 July 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 January 1920, Alliance, Nebraska, USA
23 July 1901, Rolfe, Iowa, USA
8 June 1912, Berlin, Germany
14 December 1918, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
May 28, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA
February 17, 1900 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
10 May 1919, near Shannon, Clay County, Texas, USA
November 9, 1887 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA
9 April 1903, Benkelman, Nebraska, USA
12 April 1899, Muskogee, Indian Territory, USA [now Oklahoma, USA]
31 January 1896, New York City, New York, USA
20 July 1938, San Francisco, California, USA
2 February 1903, Mound City, Missouri, USA
1 March 1946, Santa Monica, California, USA
25 November 1926, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
9 November 1894, Madrid, New Mexico Territory, USA
7 December 1895, Portland, Oregon, USA
10 November 1935, New York City, New York, USA
January 29, 1917 in Ruth, Arkansas, USA
16 August 1912, Arkansas, USA
2 July 1916, Lamar, Colorado, USA
28 November 1911, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
July 4, 1901 in near Clarno Township, Lake County, South Dakota, USA
23 August 1929, Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
31 January 1909, Great Falls, Montana, USA
September 16, 2007
A truly great western.
June 07, 2006
John Wayne at his best, striking cinematography and character ambiguity makes this a powerful and thought-provoking Wild West Odyssey.
May 13, 2008
A mature, dark, ambivalent piece that helped pave the way for the modern western.
December 02, 2001
Contains scenes of magnificence, and one of John Wayne's best performances.
September 01, 2009
Call Ethan one widescreen reminder of fear and guilt for a country that deserved at least one.
January 01, 2000
The final shot of this genuine epic says everything the Western ever had to say about the price of the American frontier and those forgotten bones upon which a nation was built.
February 09, 2006
There is perhaps some discrepancy in the play between Wayne's heroic image and the pathological outsider he plays here (forever excluded from home, as the doorway shots at beginning and end suggest), but it hardly matters, given the film's visual splendou
December 07, 2007
An absolute must see.
May 20, 2003
A rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come.
August 15, 2011
One of the better examples of the western genre.
June 27, 2007
Some fine vignettes of frontier life in the early southwest and a realistic presentation of the difficulties faced by the settlers in carving out a homestead in dangerous Indian country.
