May 26, 1956, John Ford‘s The Searchers hit movie theaters, and Western films were never the same. John Wayne plays Ethan ...

John Wayne starred in a number of iconic Westerns, but this 1956 masterpiece has a more personal meaning for the star than ...

John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on some of the Hollywood Golden Age’s best-loved Westerns from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Perhaps their most famous was ...

The Searchers became one of the most notable collaborations between Wayne and his longtime mentor, John Ford. The movie star played Ethan Edwards, a Civil War soldier, who returns back to Texas ...

By Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese Cover Story - H 2011 First, apart from being an American epic, The Searchers also is a John Wayne Western; for many, even at this late date in film history ...

“Natalie Wood was still in high school while The Searchers was being filmed,” the official Wayne Instagram wrote. “John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter picked her up from school several times ...

John Wayne and John ... in high school at the time, Wayne and co-star Jeffrey Hunter had to pick her up and take her to set on a number of occasions. The Searchers, which celebrates its 69th ...

"The Searchers," directed by John Ford, hit the big screen in 1956. John Wayne starred in the lead role of the film as Ethan Edwards. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "THE SEARCHERS") JOHN WAYNE: (as Ethan ...

They’re also the components of one of the all-time great westerns, “The Searchers.” “News of the World” is the inverse, optimistic version of John Ford’s masterpiece, with John Wayne ...

Thanks to Ford, who cut his teeth in silent pictures, The Searchers is a masterful combination ... The rider is her brother-in-law, Ethan Edwards, played by Wayne. There is a narrative to the ...

The box office appeal of John Wayne combined with the imprint of John Ford makes “The Searchers” a contender for the big money stakes. It’s a western in the grand scale – handsomely ...