My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not to serve in World War II but more particularly because he thought ...

The box office appeal of John Wayne combined with the imprint of John Ford makes "The Searchers" a contender for the big money stakes. It's a western in the grand scale - handsomely mounted and in the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Actress Vera Miles played Laurie Jorgensen in The Searchers, and before ...

A funny thing happened on May 26. I sat down for my first-ever viewing of The Searchers, the 1956 John Ford classic starring John Wayne and a very young Natalie Wood. Unbeknownst to me at the time was ...

John Ford's The Searchers (1956) is one of the greatest and most influential Westerns ever made, the culmination of his distinguished directing career, and featuring John Wayne's most complex ...

The influence of "The Searchers" on cinema from the 1970s to present is the least-elusive thing about director John Ford's 1956 Western. Countless horror films have borrowed Ford's intense zoom on ...

The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City has announced the lineup for its annual 70mm festival, which, in an age of ubiquitous digital projection, celebrates the cinematic power that the ...

In this revered Western, Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returns home to Texas after the Civil War. When members of his brother's family are killed or abducted by Comanches, Edwards vows to track down his ...

“The Searchers” is, of course, the name of director John Ford’s famous 1956 Western starring John Wayne. But it’s also part of a much bigger American story, steeped in myth, told and re-told in ...