The Searchers 4K UHD

This is one of those unique films that gets better every year because so many of the most compelling elements of it are contained within the mannerisms of the classic western which have long ago fallen out of both use and popularity. Just as we can no longer grasp the messages contained within the imagery of a medieval cathedral, contemporary audiences have trouble with John Ford's manner of visual story telling which references even older stories. It's even harder for them with his black and white films. Apart from Jeffrey Hunter - the original Captain Kirk - this is Ford's A List troupe of players. Each gives the best performance of their careers. Hank Worden, an actual cowboy and rodeo rider, is wonderful as Mos, the wise man playing the Shakespearean fool. Ward Bond was never better as the preacher and leader of the Texas Rangers: a seamless mixture of piety, bluster, caring and infinite courage. As many have noted, John Wayne delivers a riveting performance as Ethan Edwards, a war veteran who returns a tortured soul with no discernible moral core. Wayne was always underrated as an actor, in large part because most of his roles were so similar. And, on the surface, this at first may seem little different from his role as Thomas Dunson in Howard Hawks' Red River. Oh, but it is, in myriad ways which anticipate an entire generation of western heroes originally made famous by Sergio Leone and the then unknown Clint Eastwood. Yes, the depiction of aboriginal Americans is unusually harsh, especially for a John Ford film. Plus, the notion that captivity by "savages" drove white people insane is pure plot device at odds with the historical record. But this is mythology, in the most powerful sense of the word, not history. This is why the vanishing of the western is particularly sad; it is such a powerful mythological story telling device. Much has been made about the meaning of the final scene. The most moving part is John Wayne holding his left elbow with his right hand. This was the classic gesture of John Wayne's mentor in westerns, Harry Carey Sr., a star of silent movies, and was done in tribute to him. It is said that when his wife, Olive - who plays Mrs. Jorgensen in the movie - saw this, she wept.

Its John Wayne, Of course it’s a good movie.

The Searchers cast John Wayne in a role that was a bit different from many of his other roles on film, but it resulted in a superb film that has become the all time great Western movie. This film was made in the era when political correctness was not recasting history into something that never existed. A lone rider approaches a remote homestead in the American Southwest in 1868 where the only true love of Ethan still lived with his brother and his family scratching a living from the cruel desert raising cattle. Ethan quickly reveals himself to be a bitter, hard man from his Civil War service as a Confederate soldier. He also reveals himself to be highly prejudiced against Indians, but his prejudice is borne from sad experience as he reveals his knowledge of Indian culture and especially murder raids. When his brother and his family are massacered by raiding Indians, it was discovered his two neices were kidnapped by the Indians. An enraged Ethan sets out to trail the Indians and make sure his nieces were not allowed to become part of the tribe life. Ethan grudgingly lets a young man played by Jeffrey Hunter who raised by his brother's family and was with Ethan investigating an Indian raid to accompany him on his quest for vengeance. Thus began a tale of trailing the Indians who had his niece over a period of several years with Ethan being obsessed with finding and killing his niece rather than letting her be raised as an indian. The Searchers was most appropriate as a title for the move. There are many tense moments as well as humorous times as the tale unfolds and the wanderings of the two men is narrated by Jeffrey Hunter. Ultimately, the two men catch up with the tribe and the planned retribution is at hand. Can Ethan really kill his niece? The end scene to this movie has been called one of the very best in all of movie making. I have watched this film so many times I can't count them. Anyone who has not seen this movie yet will have missed an incredibly exciting and well made story. This is film making like it should be. The best part is that there is no foul language of any kind during the entire film.

Este Blu-ray llama poderosamente la atención por tener unas imágenes fabulosas que le dan a esta obra maestra un plus excepcional. Parece distinta porque se realiza todo de manera espectacular. La labor hecha sobre ella ha sido soberbia. Uno de los mejores trabajos de restauración que he visto hasta ahora. The Searchers - y no centauros del desierto que manía más ridícula de doblar títulos originales, así son de chapuceros en este país - es para mí junto a The Quiet Man las dos mejores obras de John Ford seguido de cerca por Horse Soldiers ( misión de audaces) constituyendose las tres como obras maestras del cine mundial. Para mí tanto El hombre que mató ( disparó) a Liberty Valance cómo La Diligencia no llegan a la calidad 10 de las tres anteriores. Ni tampoco La Legión Invencible ( qué traducción más ridícula) ni Fort Apache consideradas todas ellas por ciertos críticos cómo de 10. Las tres primeras están muy por encima del resto y para mí en el top ten de las 100 mejores películas de todos los tiempos e incluso entre las 10 mejores junto al gran Kurosawa. Contemplar esta edición mejorada es como verla de nuevo por primera vez saboreando cada plano de manera entusiasta. Es un auténtico deleite ser acariciado por las arenas del desierto sintiendo su calor o por la nieve de la montaña que surcan Wayne y Hunter en su incansable búsqueda de Debby. Pagué menos de 10 euros cosa que merece todavía más la pena.

Very good remaster/restoration of The Searchers in 4k. I am ok with Scar, the blue-eyed commanche. I assume that it is not a mistake and to assume that he was a kidnapped child of the mother (or father) had blue eyes. However this movie has a a big mistake. A dead native American breathing fresh air. I believe, John Ford might have noticed this after processing the film, but it was too late re-shoot the scene again.

I first saw this film as a young eighteen year-old Western aficionado on its first theatrical release to the English provinces in 1956. I came to it with great expectations fresh from reading Alan Le May's book of the same name. I came away knowing I'd seen a great film but I was disappointed on two counts first the search lasts for ten years in the book and second, Wayne's character Ethan is killed off in the penultimate battle with the Indians. In the subsequent years I've seen this film dozens of times and it never fails to amaze me that on each fresh viewing I never fail to notice something new! John Ford and John Wayne collaborated on several films most of them westerns. Although this was their first Western for six years since they completed the last of the Cavalry Trilogy RIO GRANDE (1950). As with the trilogy, Ford once again choose to shoot the most of the film in Monument Valley Utah, when using this his favourite location Ford became an acclaimed visual poet of the West. With Ford's "Western Director" to Wayne's "Western Star" they were unequalled in the making of Westerns producing an outstanding body of work between 1939 and 1962! Although THE SEARCHERS remained totally unrecognised by The Academy Awards for 1956. Fifty-odd years later it still stands at the top of the many peoples list as the greatest Western of all time. Also appearing in most if not all of The Greatest 100 Movies Of All Time Lists. Three years after the Civil War Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) a dark brooding mysterious character returns home to his brother Aaron (Walter Coy) homestead. Ethan takes his brother place on a posse led by Texas Ranger Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton (Ward Bond) on the trail of a raiding party, coming across some slaughtered cattle they realise they've been lured away whilst the main Indian party attacked either the Edwards or Jorgensen Homesteads. The main body of the posse head back towards Jorgensen's place whilst Ethan along with Mose Harper (Hank Worden) rest their horses before heading back to the Edwards homestead, meanwhile Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter) who had raised by the Edwards as their own raced on ahead against Ethan's advice. Arriving back at the smoking Edwards homestead their worse fears are founded, the two girls Lucy (Pippa Scott) and young Debbie (Lana Wood) have been taken captive and the rest killed. After the burial of his family a demented Ethan sets out after the Indians with a posse led by Captain Clayton. Following a skirmish with the Indians at the river, Clayton elects to take the wounded back home. Ethan reckons on going on alone but Martin and Brad Jorgensen (Harry Carey Jr.) insist on going too, not least because they fear what Ethan might do the girls. So the three (later two) searchers set out on the trail of the Indians for five long years a couple of trips back to the Jorgensen homestead when the trail was lost and twice pointed in the right direction by Shakespearian Fool Mose Harper, that leads to a band of Comanche led by a chief called Scar (Henry Brandon). At the camp they discover the older Debbie (Natalie Wood) dressed as an Indian girl of marriageable age. Will Ethan carry out his threat to kill her or will Martin be able to stop him? John Ford was the master of conveying terrible events to his audience through suggested violence, like the returning posse coming across the burnt out homestead with Martha's dress laying on the ground outside indicating the horrors that lay inside. Again when Ethan returns to Martin and Brad from finding Lucy's remains we just see the haunted look on his face as he plunges his knife in the earth to remove the Indian blood from the blade, all powerful stuff but left to our own imagination! And not only suggested violence but also suggested love too, hardly a word pass between Ethan and Martha but the viewer is left with little doubt of a passed tender relationship between the two. The long narrative is held together by a couple of visits back to the Jorgensen Homestead and a letter from Martin to Laurie, read out to one and all! Ford's ending of the film has turned out in the end to be one of the most iconic endings in movie history. How could I have been so presumptuous as to think anything else? This Two-Disc Special Edition includes new digital transfer from restored Vista Vision Picture with an introduction by Co-Star Patrick Wayne. Plus: The Searchers: An Appreciation and other extras. Don't miss John Ford's Masterpiece all at a bargain price from Amazon. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Una de las mejores películas de la historia del cine ahora en la gran resolución visual que ofrece el 4K.

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