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 ...

On March 13, 1956, reviews for director John Ford's 110-minute Western epic began arriving from industry press. By Jack Moffitt On March 13, 1956, reviews for director John Ford’s 110-minute Western ...

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 ...

Ethan Edwards, an embittered veteran, returns to Texas after the Civil War and discovers that Comanche Indians have killed his family and kidnapped his niece. Along with Martin Pawley, who was adopted ...

We may still be waiting for the Great American Novel, but John Ford gave us the Great American Film in 1956. The Searchers gathers the deepest concerns of American literature, distilling 200 years of ...

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 ...

John Ford’s 1956 Western The Searchers “has always been more than just a John Wayne movie,” said Douglass K. Daniel in the Associated Press. Yet in this new book about the deeper story behind the film ...

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... Philip Martin has been a columnist and critic for the Arkansas ...