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The Searchers (film)
The Searchers
is a 1956 American
Technicolor
VistaVision
Western
film directed by
John Ford
, based on the 1954 novel by
Alan Le May
, set during the
Texas–Indian Wars
, and starring
John Wayne
as a middle-aged
Civil War
veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (
Natalie Wood
), accompanied by his adoptive nephew (
Jeffrey Hunter
). Critic
Roger Ebert
found Wayne's character, Ethan Edwards, "one of the most compelling characters Ford and Wayne ever created".
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