The Searchers (1956)
When a group of Comanches attack the Edwards' Texan ranch they kill the older members of the family and kidnap Debbie and the teenager Lucy - later raping and murdering the older girl. Ethan Edwards begins a five-year search for his niece.
Film programs
Books on The Searchers
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Arthur M. Eckstein and Peter Lehman (Editors) The Searchers, Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western 2004 |
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Michael F. Blake Code of Honor, The Making of Three Great American Westerns 2003 |
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Edward Buscombe The Searchers London, 2000 |
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Books with substantial mentioning of The Searchers
Articles on The Searchers
| Kieron Corless, The Searchers, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 9 (September), 2012 pp. 47 |
| Graham Fuller, The Searchers, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 11 (November), 2012 pp. 128 |
Articles with substantial mentioning of The Searchers
| Scott Allen Nollen with Douglas Brode, Screen Historian or American Myth Maker?, The Civil War According to John Ford, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017 |
| Annemone Ligensa, "Sympathy for the Devil", Das Konzept der Indentifikation in der psychoanalytischen Filmtheorie, in: Thomas Ballhausen/Günter Krenn/Lydia Marinelli (Hg.), Psyche im Kino, Wien, 2006 |