If John Ford is the greatest Western director, "The Searchers” is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle like such Ford classics as "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” (1949) and "Rio Grande” (1950) and a film about one man’s troubling moral codes, a big-screen adventure of the 1950s that anticipated the complex themes and characters that would dominate the 1970s. John Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a former Confederate soldier who returns to his brother Aaron’s frontier cabin three years after the end of the Civil War.

1956

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1.85:1

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