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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. And in his obsessive, five-year quest, Ethan encounters something he didn't expect to find: his own humanity.
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By LW Albinski (Johannesburg, South Africa)
The best Western I have ever seen, a poetic epitome. The mastery of composition and stagecraft is unsurpassed. But this is an American movie made for American audiences and its harsh, primeval bite is softened, mollified (if not falsified?) by John Ford's effortless showmanship: the savage finale, the genocide, the bloody break of day cheapened, sanitized using some trustworthy detergents: heavy-handed humour from Wayne junior and a timely, narrowly-beamed spotlight on an indisputably cute damsel in distress.
In comparison, the fate of the Comanche tribe, left to the depredations of the blood-thirsty settlers - a tribe that we have followed with not a little fear and interest for a decade with our two heroes - is of little consequence!
The unbearable denouement bearing the hallmarks of a Shakespearean tragedy is all too cozily extenuated: the family reunited, the old man, the still-fresh scalp of an Injun in his pocket, rewarded for his loyal service by a gentle fade-out as the credits begin to role...
In his book 'Arguments for a Theatre', the British playwright Howard Barker says "You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool." Whilst 'The Searchers' is undoubtedly a beautifully-made film, Bogdanovitch alleges that John Ford himself complained that there was too much music. The Searchers are well-armed and dangerous but they recoil from a steely confrontation with their own Truth, seeking - like the film's audience - refuge if not redemption in the warmth, good cheer and companionship of the all-American hearth.
But Nietzsche admonishes us in 'Beyond Good and Evil' that the falseness of a judgment is not for us any objection to it. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species-preserving, perhaps even species-cultivating. This timeless yet flawed masterpiece fulfils all of Nietzsche's criteria munificently.
By Jason Kirkfield (Denver, Colorado)
Jeffrey Hunter (Captain Pike in the Star Trek pilot, "The Cage") is fantastic. So is John Wayne...how did he not even get nominated for an Oscar for this? Beautiful film to watch, too (thank you John Ford & Winton Hoch). And all for under six bucks since this is the bare-bones DVD version? No brainer!
By Richard S. Lowe (Manila, Philippines)
A classic piece of John Ford cinematography that anyone owning a BluRay player would be proud to have in their collection. Remember this movie was shot in the 1950s and even today people would be amazed at the work that John Ford put into making this as authentic as possible. The behind the scenes segments were simply unbelievable.
I am proud to own this movie. You should get it because works like this are just not done in modern filmmaking.
By J. Milburn
Only eight dollars for one of the best westerns ever. Duh. Buy it.
By Walton P. Sellers III (Opelousas Louisiana USA)
My title refers to the year (1998), that this particular version of "The Searchers" was transferred to DVD. There are morer recent transfers than this one, but my research has shown that this one has the best overall quality. It does justice to what is arguably John Wayne's best film.
Enjoy! My rating shows four stars. I typed that by mistake. In my opinion, this DVD rates five-star treatment!
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