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 ...

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 ...

While The Searchers presented John Wayne as a dark antihero, he actually did this a decade before with another iconic Western ...

In the decades since its release, most of the cast has passed away — some, like Wood, far too soon. But some of the stars are ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Who doesn’t love a John Wayne western? The 1956 movie “The Searchers” was one of his best, and Glenn Frankel’s book by the same name tells the true legend behind the film. “It was based ...

Wayne starred as the lead character, Ethan Edwards, in The Searchers. After the end of the Civil War, he returns back to Texas to see his family. However, he’s thrown into another kind of war ...

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 ...