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The Searchers
DVD £7.99 RRP £12.99 You save £5.00 (38%)
Blu-ray £17.99 RRP £24.99 You save £7.00 (28%)
Film Description The most majestic and greatest of all westerns. It's Ford's darkest, most complex work, with the Duke's performance as the haunted Ethan Edwards one of his finest. A film of iconic stature, an influence and inspiration for many filmmakers. Ravishing technicolor photography from Winton C. Hoch and one of the most famous closing shots in screen history. Essential viewing.
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DVD Extras Two discs. Disc 1 - Introduction by Patrick Wayne, Commentary by Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?), Theatrical trailer. Disc 2 - Documentaries - The Searchers: An Appreciation, A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and The Searchers, Behind the Cameras, Meet Jeffrey Hunter, Monument Valley, Meet Natalie Wood, Setting Up Production.
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Review by Wolfram Parge on 26th April 2002 Based on the novel by Alan LeMay, this loving Western celebrates the talents of the larger-than-life Ford-Wayne partnership at the peak of their careers. Wayne is Ethan Edwards, a hard-bitten, ex-confederate soldier returning home to his brother’s family after a long absence. His arrival seems mysterious and the man withdrawn, but Ethan’s agenda becomes clear one night when his family are massacred and his niece kidnapped by Comanche Indians. Not surrendering to hunger, thirst, loneliness or the elements, his obsessive, five-year quest to find her leads him to something which he did not expect to find - his own humanity. Ford’s film is philosophical, melancholy, and its searing colours throw the viewer into the wide open spaces of Monument Valley, which lie at the heart of his universe. Both dark and humourous, The Searchers also immortalized John Wayne as one of the tallest icons of the silver screen. View more reviews by Wolfram Parge
Article - "The Duke: John Wayne at 100"
by James Oliver
More than any other film star, John Wayne represented more than the characters he played. He embodied a sense of purpose, an expression of an attitude. Or, if you prefer, borderline fascism, because no other star has ever divided people like John Wayne. But what gets... View article in full
Article - "Anthony Mann & The Western Renaissance"
by Peter Wild
If you were asked to name the greatest ever western, it’s possible you might say The Searchers, John Ford’s complex and ambiguous deconstruction of everything John Wayne had accomplished up to that point. Perhaps you’d plumb for High Noon or The Man ... View article in full
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Sight and Sound Critics Choice 2002 Including: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Andrei Rublev, Au Hasard Balthazar, Bicycle Thieves, Breathless (Godard, 1959), Charlie Chaplin - City Lights, Fanny and Alexander, Fellinis 8 1/2, Intolerance, Ivan The Terrible (Parts 1 & 2).
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