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[YT Edit] The Searchers (1976) (Patreon)

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2025-04-08 22:32:10
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Hey guys! Here is the YT edit for "The Searchers" which will premiere this evening!

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Keith Brown

I'm checking out the YouTube version to see what Cassie used from the Patreon showing I watched before . It's one of my favorite classics of all time. Looking forward in the weeks ahead for more classics Cassie watches ! Thanks !

JB

It's from 1956, also in the Val Kilmer poll there was some wrong dates as well.

Chris

El Dorado, McClintock, Rio Lobo, Rio Bravo, Red River, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon! I could go on and on! John Wayne made something like 200 movies in his career. Most of them were Westerns, but not all of them. The Sands of Iwo Jima is another good one. Donavons Reef (I've mentioned that one to you before) is a humorous one! Basically, you can't go wrong with John Wayne! His final movie was The Shootest. While dying of cancer, Wayne played an old gunfighter who was dying of cancer!

Steven Perez

If you're looking for a more heroic John Wayne character, might I recommend either RIO BRAVO or THE COMMANCHEROS.

William Brownlee

I love McClintock for the great humor. I wish younger people watched mire of these. My belief in honor was helped by so many of these classic movies. His old enemies but with honor and respect.

Robert Jewell

I'll keep it simple.Next John Wayne westerns: STAGECOACH (1939) and RIO BRAVO (1959).

Jared Petty

Cassie, I suggest The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance starring John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. It's one of the very best westerns.

Chris Thom

I remember watching this in a film class in high school. This was chosen as the quintessential American Western.

Carol Rocha

You have to see Big Jake!! I love it. 😍

Bill W

I hope you get to some more classic John Wayne flicks.. early one- his first leading role The Big Trail (1930), Stagecoach, Fort Apache, Liberty Valance, Red River, The Comancheros, The Horse Soldiers. I think in particular you would love Rio Bravo, Sons of Katie Elder, El Dorado and The Cowboys.

Bill Isaacs

I knew you'd eventually get around to this one, just as sure as the turning of the Earth. Your hand camera was a treat. John Ford's style was to film a movie so that at almost any point you could freeze it and the frame was composed like a painting. He always wanted horizons and the ground to be as light as possible. He was an admirer of the Japanese director Kurosawa and the feeling was mutual. There is debate about the "greatest western" of all time between this one and "Shane". I love them both.

Bill Isaacs

Excellent suggestion, well done. I was just thinking about that one the other day.

Bill W

Cassie, there's some familiar faces in this film: Older Debbie is played by Natalie Wood (Miracle on 34th Street, West Side Story). Younger Debbie is played by her younger sister Lana Wood. Rev. Capt. Clayton is played by Ward Bond (Fr. Lonergan in The Quiet Man, Bert the Cop in It's a Wonderful Life). You'll see Ward Bond in a number of John Wayne films, as well as Harry Carey, Jr. (Brad Jorgenson), Hank Worden (Mose Harper) and John's son Patrick Wayne (Lt. Greenhill)

Mark White

That’s a great list Bill, even though “Rio Bravo isn’t the best on the list, I still think it’s the Wayne western Cassie would enjoy the most.

Mark White

Steven, Those are two really good choices for Cassie.

Bill W

It's one of my favorites.

Clay F

I like how the movie is dark -- seems ahead of its time. The start of a change in the western genre. "They ain't white anymore." Like Cassie, I am glad that Ethan decided not to kill his niece in the end. Ethan through the movie = a mix of nastiness and reserved humor. Scar was hard to look at. I know may have been difficult in 1956, but I wish Scar would have been played by a native American instead of a German-born actor in Indian drag. That's an aspect I liked about another western 13-years later "The Wild Bunch" (1969) (also AFI Top 100) -- Hispanic characters portrayed by Hispanics.

VirtuallyVeronicka

I think you would enjoy/prefer some of John Wayne’s later films, and some of my favorites: Rio Bravo (1959), North to Alaska (1960), True Grit (1969), and especially The Cowboys (1972).

MikeLL

This has long been a wish of mine, that Cassie watched Liberty Valance. It also co-stars Vera Miles who Cassie saw in The Searchers and Psycho.

Shad Kanyak

I skipped the full version because I don’t like westerns. I checked the edit out and feel good about my choice. Blah. Don’t get what people love about John Wayne.

Bill W

I 2nd Rio Bravo and The Cowboys.

Clay F

I watched The Cowboys a few times as a kid. I don’t think she is taken with John Wayne. Plus, she said she prefers modern westerns., which I took that to mean post-1970. She has seen the True Grit remake. I don’t see her watching the original.

Clay F

My guess is we will not be getting a reaction to a classic John Wayne flick any time soon. She doesn't seem taken with the John Wayne charisma. Plus, she said she prefers modern westerns.

Clay F

That's interesting. She doesn't seem big on John Wayne but she does like Jimmy Stewart. She said she preferred modern westerns, but maybe Jimmy Stewart would be enough for her to consider an older western.

VirtuallyVeronicka

True Grit the original is leaps and bounds better than the remake IMO. I think the storyline in those recs are more interesting and have lovable characters for a younger audience than The Searchers. It might appeal.

Clarence Newman

Not the funnest Wayne western to start you on, Shad. I would personally vouch for Rio Bravo or Sons of Katie Elder as more fun introductions.

Above Average Dave

Without providing spoilers, THE COWBOYS, RED RIVER, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, TRUE GRIT and THE SHOOTIST are all "modern westerns" in construction and motif.

Above Average Dave

Have you seen RED RIVER, Clay. Similar in the darkness of the main character, but he's driven by other types of internal demons.

Clay F

Thanks Dave. I added Red River to my watchlist. I've been wondering what my next John Wayne would be.

Above Average Dave

There's dialogue in GET SHORTY that discusses how RIO BRAVO and EL DORADO are basically the same movie. It's a total nod to movie geeks (i.e., us) and cracks me up every time.

Chris

Basically, Rio Bravo was remade into El Dorado AND Rio Lobo. And all 3 were good movies!

Michael Enos

Cast Trivia: The Reverend Captain was played by Ward Bond. Ward Bond, was also Burt the cop in It's A Wonderful Life.

Chris Thom

I wonder if Natalie Wood was friends with Elizabeth Taylor? They really seem alike in a lot of ways. Would think they'd have had a lot of shared experiences.

Chris Baldwin

Try the film "The Horse Soldier's", which has a great cast, ant the story is beautifully written. It has humor: Drama: a love interest and it really draws you in. Or. you can watch Wayne's last film, "The Shootist". I identify with it, as I have two Cancer's and Wayne died of Lung Cancer. Which is one of the two I have. They even took out my Left Lung, just like Wayne. I also have Non-Hodgekins Lymphoma, which cost me my Spleen. I live day to day. Such is life! Nice talking to everyone!!!

Bill W

🚩If he's not, then it's a bad joke.

Bill W

And Father Lonergan in The Quiet Man. I think that's all she's seen him in. I'll add.. Brad Jorgensson was played by Harry Carey, Jr..... aka Sheriff Fred White in Tombstone.

Mike Carey

Useless trivia but I had to watch this movie as part of a film class I took in college

Above Average Dave

He plays an anti-John Wayne character in that similar to the driven character in THE SEARCHERS. That's all I'll say.

Above Average Dave

Not sure if anyone has discussed this tidbit or passed it on to Cassie yet—and I wish I had the interview available, but I recall reading it where either John Ford or someone who knew him well (Frank Capra?) said that THE SEARCHERS was an allegory for Ford's Catholism. Basically: John Wayne's represents that faith wrapped up very human flaws. Natalie Wood's character is a family member who has become a wayward soul taken over by non-belief/temptation and then given into that temptation/non-belief. The entire movie is him trying to rescue her soul, and his faith pushing him through every arduous challenge along the way, no matter the personal cost or sacrifice. The fact that he's just been through the Civil War and seen so many souls lost senselessly—and in many cases, horrifically—has set his desire to try to save just one soul—one!—of this poor girl who has become captured by non-belief and potential eterna; damnation. His wanting to kill her at one point when he believes she is beyond redemption is the ultimate human weakness and his own trial of faith. His act of forgiveness and return at the end is the philosophy that no souls are beyond redemption if forgiveness is unconditional—which is why, when he says gently, "Let's go home," and carries her there. That represents his unconditional forgiveness. It's also why, at the end, having saved her, his relentless quest is finished. What that quest—that painful, agonizing self-sacrificing personal five-year journey to forgiveness and redemption—his and hers— (which is his whole lifetime of the film to the viewer) took from him—has left him exhausted, nearly broken and staggering off towards his own final fate. Pretty deep, and I remember being stunned and amazed by this explanation. At first I thought, "No way Ford had all that in his mind for this—this western!" But after reading that interview, I rewatched THE SEARCHERS with that framing and thought, "If that was his subtext, it's a work of genius." And on every re-viewing, I've become convinced that, within this hard-edged dark western with all its current cultural taboos, this is exactly the film's statement, if only for the very flawed but in his heart still very faithful John Ford to himself.

Joe J

This sounds more like what you think the movie is saying, right?

Joe J

The Man who Shot Liberty Valance has an engaging story with nuanced performances, I think Cassie would get into it.

Above Average Dave

No, this was stated in an interview that I read -. I think it was with John Ford, but it might've been with Frank Capra, who knew Ford well, or George Stevens. I read it in the 1980s but I think the interview was done in the late 1960s.

Joe J

If it was Ford himself looking back at his motivations many years later, that can still be of questionable value and not accurate. It's far too easy to add much of his current day thinking and perceptions, just human nature for people to do that.

Above Average Dave

Sadly, I don’t have the interview, Joe. It may be what you said, that Ford or one of his close friends, later in life was trying to imbue this with some trenchant after-the-fact meaning. I just recall the statement from the interview and looking at it from that perspective after being very skeptical of the statement, and then upon re-watches, seeing the underlying tone that was articulated. In films class, they often say that the symbolism is predicated on either: 1) the idea of American manifest destiny in westward expansion or 2) Ford’s fascination for the Confederacy (despite being born in the North) and being an advocate for self-determination of states/individuals and the begrudging misfit soldiers who came out of that war made to swear allegiance to the Union. That second one surfaces a LOT in his westerns - the misanthropic Confederate soldier looking to re-forge (or-reestablish) his identity on the western frontier.

Jackson Harper

I just wanted to echo the others here who suggested The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. You get John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart going head to head, plus it’s just a ripping good time and kind of a thriller.

MikeLL

In the chat during the YouTube premier of The Searchers, Cassie said that The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was going to be her "next Wayne film". Cassie has made many prom proms over the years, I won't let her forget this one!

Brian O'Grady

I watched this along with you, Cassie. I've seen it many, many times, and I always get emotional at the end, when Ethan stands in the doorway. First of all it is a stunning shot. While Debbie is ultimately rescued (note when Ethan lifts her above his shoulders at the end is the same way he lifter her up as a little girl in the beginning), it is not a happy ending for Ethan. The doorway represents the threshold between the untamed wilderness and civilization. Ethan cannot cross this threshold. He is cursed, just as he cursed the Comanche Warrior by shooting out his eyes, destined to wander between the winds.

Clay F

Having Jimmy Stewart would entice her I would think.

Chris Baldwin

Dave, thank you for the kind word's. I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgekins Lymphoma on July 31st, 2013. Two day's after Christmas I had my Spleen removed at the University of Vermont Medical Center. I was good until late in 2016, and had to have Chemo-Therapy. Two day's a month for six month's in the chair. After which a PET Scan was done to see if they had gotten it. That's when they saw the Lung Cancer. So, on October 13th, 2017 they had to remove my left Superior Lung. That was the most painful thing I have ever gone through. According to the American Cancer Society, living five year's after treatment is considered a success. It will be eight year's this October, so I'm very lucky. Again, thank you and God bless you also. Bill W., I'm sorry you have such distrust in people. So, NO I'm not joking. Hoodie person, I'm DEAD serious. From your comment it sounds like you care, so thanks.

Clay F

Looks like may be among recent YT videos w/lower numbers of views. The Searchers - 35K (3 days) The Lincoln Lawyer - 39K (9 days) Cold Mountain - 31K (2 weeks) Conquest of The PotA (42K) (2 weeks) Escape from The PotA (51K) (3 weeks) The French Connection (38K) (3 weeks) Now and Then (28K) (4 weeks)

Joe J

@Clay, surprising the low views on "The Lincoln Lawyer", so many even recent films just seem to be forgotten about. Not surprising with the 70s films overall, the older Ape movies have done reasonably okay IMO.

Clay F

@ Joe, agree. I thought there was enough star power in "The Lincoln Lawyer" to get more views. I was uncertain how the Ape original sequels (early 70's) would do.

James M

I'm glad you are still finding the good in life. It's a remarkable gift that John Wayne made "The Shootist" for us. I personally have enjoyed it much more than his early work like this film. I believe a lot of that comes from his first hand awareness of mortality and how it informs his performance.

James M

IMO he plays a really despicable person in this film. I realize that's counter to the usual narrative you will read about him in this movie. For me his support of the Confederacy, his superior attitude, his endless denigrating of native people all seem of a whole and really just a portrait of a bad person. The triumph of his character here is in finally not murdering an innocent girl. That's a stunningly low bar on which to try to redeem a person and for me it doesn't work.

James M

Good observation Dave. I'd add that North to Alaska is a romance film set in the northwest. That may make it more engaging for this channel.