Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Drama.
Vida fronteriza Oeste (Estados Unidos) Teatro.
Video recording for the hearing impaired.
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
Westerns
Texas, 1868: dopo che gli indiani hanno massacrato suo fratello Aaron e sua cognata, il reduce sudista Ethan Edwards va alla ricerca delle due bambine rapite, assieme a Martin, un mezzosangue adottato da Aaron. (Mereghetti).
The Searchers = La prisonnière du désert
"Un officier confédéré revient au ranch de son frère, trois ans après la fin de la guerre civile, pour voir les Indiens Comanche massacrer les siens et amener sa nièce en captivité. Il passe plusieurs années à poursuivre les ravisseurs avec des amis de la famille éprouvée. Il finit par rejoindre les Indiens qui retiennent sa nièce et, après bien des aventures, la délivre pour repartir vers un pays inconnu." [(c) Médiafilm].
Western films
Features
Western
John Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. His search spans five years and covers panoramic shots of the landscape of the American West in this epic Western.
The searchers (Motion picture : 1964)
Two men spend five years in primitive country searching for a young girl who has been captured by Indians.
Adventure
A western about a Civil War veteran who tracks a Comanche raiding party for five years to rescue the girl they hold captive.
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Ethan (John Wayne) regresa a su casa después de haber estado en la guerra y al poco tiempo toda su familia es asesinada por los comanches, y su sobrina raptada. Jura rescatar a su sobrina y matar a todos los indios que hayan intervenido en estos actos criminales. Durante cinco largos años persigue a los comanches, acompañado de su sobrino Martin (Jeffrey Hunter).
Searchers (Motion picture)
A Confederate war veteran trails a Comanche raiding party for five years to rescue the girl it hold captive.
John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection
Ex-confederate soldier Ethan Edwards searches five years for his niece, the only member of his family to survive a Comanche massacre.
Film excerpts
Ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater believes more in bullets than words. When he returns from the Civil War to find that Comanches have killed his brother and his brother's wife and have taken their daughter, he sets out after them.
Western (Genere)
John Ford made 113 feature films in his remarkable career. His career is so extensive that is spans both the silent and sound eras of American film history. Ford's film The Searchers, is loosely based on the history of the Comanche and their losing battle with American expansion into Texas and the southern plains. Over a five year period, a Confederate veteran (John Wayne) tracks the Comanche warrior who killed his brother and sister-in-law and kidnapped their daughter. Ford's film explores the obsession of an aging Indian fighter, consumed with hatred for the Comanche. The Indian Wars had reached their climax with the death of General Custer at the hands of the Sioux and the Cheyenne at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Anti Indian sentiment was rampant and the norm. Director John Ford had bought the rights to the novel by Alan LeMay which he used as a basis for his script. The period of history featured in John Ford's film and LeMay's book, is unrivaled in human history. In the space of two short decades between 1854 and 1877, an entire culture, the people of the Cheyenne, the Sioux, Kiowa, Comanche etc. were removed from a region of 350 million square miles, their way of life destroyed in order to make way for westward expansion.
John Wayne in The Searchers
1956 nian hua na gong si chu pin, gen ju a lun le mei xiao shuo gai bian.bian dao chong xin zhi yi mei guo bai ren yu yin di an ren jian chuan tong de dui li guan xi,zai xing shi shang,yi xian ming de shi jue yin xiang jian li man huang yu yuan shi de dui li,bing yi ci wei ji chu zu cheng quan pian de xu shi jia gou zai nei rong shang,shi ben pian de bai ren yu hong ren zhi zheng chao yue dan chun de zhong zu zhi zheng, ti sheng wei wen ming yu ye man hu xiang dou zheng de bei ju.ci pian kan cheng shi jin xiang jiang de yi zhu zhi han.
Soon after the end of the American Civil War, Ethan Edwards, an unrepentant Confederate officer, finds a mission in the ten year search for his two nieces who were kidnapped by Indians. The search ranges across the American landscape, physical, emotional and mythical in this epic Western. Ford shows the frontier myth in a sober and disenchanted light. This mood is supported by John Wayne's brilliant portrail of a man who is a brutal and embittered survivor of frontier life and war.
Feature film from the USA. Western. A Civil War veteran's long search across the American landscape for his nieces, taken by Indians.
Sou suo zhe
A Confederate war veteran tracks down the Indians who have slaughtered his brother and sister-in-law and carried off their daughter. [c.f. Halliwell's].
Fiction films
The searchers
Sentieri selvaggi
A civil war veteran's five-year search for his niece, who has been taken by Indians, ranges across the American landscape, physical, emotional and mythical in this epic Western. Gaps open between Wayne's heroic image and the pathology underlying his obsessive quest, gaps which ultimately close around the tragic mythology of the Westerner, an outsider impelled to walk away from the comforts and security of community.
1956年華納公司出品, 根據阿倫勒梅小說改編.編導重新質疑美國白人與印第安人間傳統的對立關係,在形式上,以鮮明的視覺印象建立蠻荒與原始的對立,並以此為基礎組成全片的敘事架構在內容上,使本片的白人與紅人之爭超越單純的種族之爭,提升為文明與野蠻互相鬥爭的悲劇.此片堪稱是金像獎的遺珠之憾
A Confederate war veteran tracks down the Indians who have slaughtered his brother and sister-in-law and carried off their daughter.
John Wayne in The searchers
An ex-Confederate soldier searches for his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Confederate war veteran tracks down the Indians who have slaughtered his brother and sister-in-law, and taken his niece.
Fort Apache: Soldiers at Fort Apache are under the command of a glory-seeking commander even in the face of certain disaster.
Film adaptations
Texas 1868. La famille d'Aaron Edwards est decimée par une bande de Commanches qui attaquent son ranch et enlèvent ses deux fillettes. Ethan, le frère d'Aaron, découvre le drame et se lance sur les traces des ravisseurs avec deux autres compagnons (source : Allociné).
A man returning from the Civil War to find that Comanches have killed his brother and his brother's wife and have taken their daughter, so he sets out after them.
The searchers: An ex-Confederate soldier searches for his niece who was captured by the Comanches who massacred his family.
The searchers (Excerpt : [1964?])
An ex-Confederate soldier searches for his niece who was captured by the Comanches who massacred his family.
Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Drama
A confederate war veteran's five year search for his niece, who has been taken by Indians, ranges across the American landscape in this epic western.
A Confederate war veteran tracks down the Indians who killed his brother and sister-in-law and carried off their daughter.
Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) is an ex-confederate soldier seeking his niece captured by the Comanches who massacred his family. In his obsessive, five-year quest, Ethan encounters something he didn't expect to find : his own humanity.
Feature films
Action
John Wayne is an embittered Civil War veteran tracking Commanches who have killed his family and kidnapped his niece.
Western film about a Confederate war veteran who tracks down the Indians who killed his brother and sister-in-law and carried off their daughter.
Films for the hearing impaired
Summary: A civil war veteran's five year search for his niece, who has been taken by indians, ranges across the American landscape, both physical and emotional, in this epic western.
Searchers (1956)
John Wayne in the searchers
When Ethan Edwards returns from the Civil War to find that Comanches have killed his brother and his brother's wife and have taken their daughter, he sets out after them.
An ex-Confederate soldier seeks his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family.
Soon after the end of the American Civil War, Ethan Edwards, an unrepentant Confederate officer, finds a mission in the ten year search for his two nieces who were kidnapped by indians. The search ranges across the American landscape, physical, emotional and mythical in this epic Western. Ford shows the frontier myth in a sober and disenchanted light. This mood is supported by John Wayne's brilliant portrail of a man who is a brutal and embittered survivor of frontier life and war. DVD.
Texas 1868. La famille d'Aaron Edwards est decimée par une bande de Commanches qui attaquent son ranch et enlèvent ses deux fillettes. Ethan, le frère d'Aaron, découvre le drame et se lance sur les traces des ravisseurs avec deux autres compagnons.
A confederate war veteran's five year search for his neice, who has been taken by Indians, ranges across the American landscape in this epic western.
The searchers = Sentieri selvaggi
The searchers Fort Apache
"... Un ancien soldat confédéré [est] à la recherche de sa nièce, capturée par les Comanches qui ont massacré sa famille. Il brave la faim, la soif, les éléments et la solitude. Au cours de sa quête qui dure cinq ans, il trouve l'inattendu : sa propre humanité."--Conteneur.
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness. The original theatrical trailer and four segments of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews from Warner Bros. Presents TV series are also featured.
A Confederate war veteran tracks down the Indians who have slaughtered his brother and sister-in-law, and taken his niece.
The Searchers
[John] Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, a believer more in bullets than in words. He's seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender, to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive, five-year quest, Ethan encounters something he didn't expect to find: his own humanity"--Videodisc sleeve.
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John Wayne in 'The Searchers'
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