The Searchers (1956)
Note: this print runs 103 minutes against a recorded 119 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, John Qualen, Harry Carey, Ken Curtis, Natalie Wood
Directed by John Ford
The Searchers is a 1956 American epic Western film directed by John Ford and written by Frank S. Nugent, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May. It is set during the Texas–Indian wars and stars John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who, accompanied by his adopted, partially Native American nephew (Jeffrey Hunter), spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood). It was shot in VistaVision on Eastmancolor negative with processing and prints by Technicolor.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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