The Searchers (1956)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

John Ford

Escritores:

Frank S. Nugent (screenplay)
Alan Le May (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

13 marzo 1956 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Drama | Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

The story that sweeps from the great Southwest to the Canadian border in VistaVision.

Plot:

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Plot Keywords:

Raid | Civil War Veteran | Rescue | Texas | Hatred

Premios:

1 win & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Possibly the greatest movie ever made (ala Spielberg)

US TV Schedule:

Tue. July 14

2:45 PM

AMC

Reparto

John Wayne	...	Ethan Edwards
Jeffrey Hunter	...	Martin Pawley
Vera Miles	...	Laurie Jorgensen
Ward Bond	...	Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton
Natalie Wood	...	Debbie Edwards (older)
John Qualen	...	Lars Jorgensen
Olive Carey	...	Mrs. Jorgensen
Henry Brandon	...	Chief Cicatrice (Scar)
Ken Curtis	...	Charlie McCorry
Harry Carey Jr.	...	Brad Jorgensen
Antonio Moreno	...	Emilio Gabriel Fernandez y Figueroa
Hank Worden	...	Mose Harper
Beulah Archuletta	...	Wild Goose Flying in the Night Sky (Look)
Walter Coy	...	Aaron Edwards
Dorothy Jordan	...	Martha Edwards

También conocida como:

Más corazón que odio (Argentina) (Chile) [es]
Centauros del desierto (Spain) [es]
Mas corazón que ódio (Mexico) (cable TV title) [es]

Duración:

119 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.75 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Clasificación:

Canada:F (Ontario) | Canada:G (British Columbia/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Canada:G (Manitoba) | Portugal:M/12 | Iceland:L | West Germany:12 (nf) | USA:Approved (certificate #17787) | South Korea:12 (2003) | Australia:G | Finland:K-12 | Norway:12 | Sweden:15 | UK:U

Locaciones de Filmación:

Aspen, Colorado, USA

Compañía:

C.V. Whitney Pictures

Trivialidades:

Ranked #1 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Western" in June 2008.

Errores:

Incorrectamente calificados como errores: The dead Indian under the stone appears to still be breathing. However, this is not an error. Immediately after dying, the Indian was buried with a very heavy stone placed over him. The stone would have cause any residual air in the dead man's lungs to be expelled, creating a vacuum. When the stone is removed air rushes through the nasal passages, filling the empty lungs and giving the perception that the man is "breathing". He does not exhale, because the diaphragm has stopped functioning as an air pump.

Citas:

[first lines]
[seeing a horseman in the distance]
Aaron Edwards: Ethan?
Debbie Edwards: Hush, Prince.
Lucy Edwards: That's your Uncle Ethan!
Martha Edwards: [he approaches] Welcome home, Ethan!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: It's Only a Paper Moon (#7.10)" (1998)

Banda de Sonido:

The Searchers

Possibly the greatest movie ever made (ala Spielberg)

OK. First of all, I have seen quite a few movies in my time, and the complexity of this film makes this one of the top 5 movies of all time. Steven Spielberg said (in an early 90's interview) that this movie was possibly the greatest of all times, due to the depth of the character studies. The interplay between Ethan & Martha (his brother's wife)is subtle, yet screams of an undying, yet unfulfilled love that has endured for several years. You have to see the scene where Ward Bond is left in the house eating doughnuts, and witnesses the final, tender goodbye, while looking straight ahead, coming to the realization of what it all means, and how hard it is for the two of them to keep it from everyone else.

It is true that the film was filmed in Utah with the story taking place in Texas, but that quickly becomes a moot point. There is not space to extol all the virtues of this movie The relationship of Ethan & Martin, Martin & Lori, and the raw emotion experienced by all members of the cast are worth the rental price. No cast member came back from making this movie the same way they were when they left. Watch the film, it gets inside you. Watch it again, and you'll find things you never saw before, no matter how many times you see it.

Until next time!