Known to be the best cowboy movie ever, The Searchers displays John Wayne at his best as he plays an anti-hero in his search and rescue of his kidnapped niece.
The Searchers is a die-hard movie, where the lead characters search for five years for their kidnapped little girl.
The idea of cowboys chasing Indians across the desert for revenge is something many will find quite captivating and hard to miss. The movie’s high point was John Wayne himself, his anti-hero character, and his tough-man persona, which was very convincing. There was a point when I wished he got shot, and then he did, and I was happy.
The movie’s low point for me was Jeffrey Hunter, the actor from King of Kings (1961). The movie is filled with moments that will make you giggle. It was shot mostly outdoors in a desert terrain, which, after a while, I got tired of seeing.
He decides to move in with his brother, but things change when Ethan’s brother is raided by Comanches, the entire family is killed, and the little girl, Debbie, is kidnapped. Now enraged, Ethan decides to hunt down the Comanches who took his niece, and with him is his 1/8th Indian nephew, whom he dislikes.
The search for Debbie goes on for five years, until one day Ethan and Martin find her, but she has grown up, and Scar, the Comanche chief who took her, is not ready to let go of his prize.
John Wayne became typecast in Western films, which led to him winning an Academy Award for True Grit (1969).
The Searchers received critical acclaim and was a box-office success, but it got no Academy Award nominations. The movie is ranked 12th in the American Film Institute’s 100 Years... 100 Movies list, and the British Film Institute ranks it 7th in their Sight and Sound survey of the best movies of all time.
The movie was directed by John Ford, a 12-time Academy Award winner, four of which were for Best Director. Ford is an excellent director, and his gift can be seen in the way the movie flows and in his direction.
The fun I had watching The Searchers was trying to figure out the loose ends. The way Ethan looked at his brother’s wife suggested there might be something going on. Also, there’s the time when Martin (Jeffrey Hunter) accidentally buys a Comanche wife, and we find her with Scar, the Comanche who is believed to have kidnapped Debbie.
Well, the movie is fun to watch, and I highly recommend it for all Western lovers.
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