RESCHEDULED
Saturday, September 1, 2007
8:00 PM @ Cinema Paradiso
Admission is $5
Discussion to follow
Click here for synopsis and trailer.
John Ford | USA | 1956 | 119 min | NR
Starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Vera Miles, and Natalie Wood
Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into a landmark Western offering an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays an ex-Confederate soldier seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family.
He won’t surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his 5-year search, he encounters something unexpected: his own humanity.
Reviews:
“… a rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come.”
“Ethan Edwards, fierce, alone, a defeated soldier with no role in peacetime, is one of the most compelling characters Ford and Wayne ever created…”
• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Related:
YouTube: John Ford on his view of the West
YouTube: Martin Scorsese on American Westerns: Part 1 and Part 2 (Partial)
Google Video: “The American West of John Ford”
