The Searchers 4K is a wonderful release that is everything you could want for a classic movie being reissued. The John Wayne classic has never looked better for the film, which is still incredibly ...

John Wayne’s 1956 Western “The Searchers” will debut a new restoration as part of the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival in April. This marks the second Wayne film to receive a premiere of a restored ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: MOVIES The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel (Bloomsbury) A modest hit in theaters in 1956, “The Searchers” has grown ...

Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin speaks with Glenn Frankel, author of The Searchers which explores the making of the classic Western film. It is one of the most iconic American Westerns of ...

The greatest Western of all time . . . isn’t. Though The Searchers is regularly hailed as the finest exemplar of its genre and one of the best movies of any kind (seventh-best of all time, according ...

Cynthia Ann Parker or, as she came to be known, Na’ura, was born in Illinois’s Crawford County sometime around 1827. Her father, Silas M. Parker, along with brother James, traveled west with their ...

Perhaps even more so than his last couple of films, Martin Scorsese’s contributions to film preservation and education in recent years have marked him as one of the medium’s greatest guardians. From ...

“The Searchers” is set in the waning days of the 40-year struggle between Texans and Comanches – the longest war ever fought on American soil – and it unflinchingly depicts the terrible price that ...

Wayne starred as the lead character, Ethan Edwards, in The Searchers. After the end of the Civil War, he returns back to Texas to see his family. However, he’s thrown into another kind of war when ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...