Best of the Big Screen
THE SEARCHERS
Wednesday, October 30th at 7:30 PM
Introduction by film historian Philip Harwood
In John Ford’s legendary epic
western, John Wayne stars as Ethan
Edwards, an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by a group
of Comanches who massacred his family. He won’t surrender to hunger, thirst,
the elements, or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest, Ethan finds something
unexpected: his own humanity. With The
Searchers, John Ford, cinema’s poet of the Wild West, crafted a mesmerizing
frontier saga, full of mystery, that is today considered his greatest
achievement and pinnacle of the western genre. (1956, 119 mins)


