The Searchers News

On a cold drizzly night, actress Natalie Wood drowned off the coast of Catalina Island.

Merrimack Hall will continue its Classic Sunday Film series with the John Wayne epic classic "The Searchers." Directed by John Ford and released in 1956, "The Searchers"tells the saga of Ethan Edwards and his five-year quest through the dusty Arizona desert to avenge the death of his family and find his kidnapped niece,. The film has been called ...

The good, the bad and the ugly of the western film genre has left its mark on a new exhibition... WALK down Edinburgh's Market Street after dusk next month and you might just have a face to face encounter with John Wayne.

So it is fitting, if not downright appropriate, to seize upon the equineosity of the season and turn our collective mind to the marvellous contribution horses have made to the cinematic arts.

Thirty years ago, Paul Schrader made Hardcore , a bold, highly charged reworking of John Ford's The Searchers starring George C Scott as a Midwestern Calvinist making a nightmare journey through the sexual sewers of southern California in search of a missing daughter drawn into the world of porn movies.

"THE Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," John Ford 's great, autumnal western, dramatizes a moment of historical transition.

Twenty-five years ago - Oct. 16, 1984 - an Air Force B-52 bomber crashed and exploded on Hunts Mesa, sending a fireball thousands of feet into the air and turning night into day across Monument Valley.

In my mind, perhaps THE most undeserving Best Actor Oscar EVER present was in 1970 when John Wayne received the honor for his "performance" in "True Grit." It was a lifetime achievement award to be exact; that movie wasn't The Duke's 20th best performance .

To hear some Texas politicians trash talk California, you'd think the only good thing the Golden State ever produced was John Wayne.

John Wayne didn't receive formal accolades for his acting ability until his 1970 performance as Marshall Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn.

One of my favorite books about the movies is "Roman Soldiers Don't Wear Watches: 333 Film Flubs" by Bill Givens.

Irish-American filmmaker John Ford died 35 years ago at the age of 79, a belligerent genius who alienated his best friends while making visionary art in the western and war movie genres.

THE SEARCHERS a ' John McNally, Frank Allen, Spencer James and Eddie Rothe a ' are back at Buxton Opera House by popular demand on Sunday evening.

Monument Valley is known to cinephiles as "John Ford Country" because the great director made seven Western masterpieces there - "Stagecoach," "My Darling Clementine," "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," "The Searchers," "Sergeant Rutledge" and "Cheyenne Autumn." But he also used to great advantage another Utah location - Moab - when he ...

Posted on Sep 11, 2009 by Todd Dorman . My vacation continues. Here's a rerun from June, 5, 2008.

ANGEL AND THE BADMAN is one of my very favorite John Wayne movies, which I revisit on a regular basis.

I have loved Quentin Tarantino's movies. He is an evocative translator of historic movie traditions into modern sensibilities.

A warm, reliable and likable lead of features and TV beginning in the 1950s, Vera Miles got a prominent start but rarely seemed to get the roles her talent merited.

Adventure always adds spice to a vacation. So two weeks ago we walked into Moab Adventure Center on Main Street in Moab, Utah.

In my continuing Claremont Institute sponsored John Ford/John Wayne movie marathon here in Newport Beach, last night I watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance .