Searchers

John Ford''s masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was rated fifth greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound''s most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America''s most distinguished contemporary filmmakers, among them Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, and John Milius, is enormous. John Wayne''s portrait of the vengeful Confederate Ethan Edwards gives the film a truly epic dimension, as ...