Western
The Searchers
Avg rating 8.4 / My rating TBC
1956 · Directed by John Ford · With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
- Classical Western
- Classical Hollywood
- Auteur Cinema
Texas, a few years after the Civil War. A hard, secretive veteran rides out with a small party to find family members taken in a raid, and the search stretches across seasons and landscapes. A Western of great beauty and unsettling moral weight.
Film info
- Runtime
- 1h 59m · 119 min
- Format
- Colour, widescreen, English language, about 119 minutes.
- IMDb
- 7.8 / 10 (101,104 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 87% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 94 / 100
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (audience, 1,635 votes)
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