John Wayne in The Searchers (1956) - The Doorway Scene #JohnWayne | Classic Western Movies

179K views · 4.5K reactions | John Wayne's greatest visual masterpiece! The Searchers (1956) is considered the peak of Western cinematography. Its lighting, vivid color palette, and Monument Valley shots turned the film into a cinematic lesson. | Legends of US History | Facebook

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John Wayne Best Scene in The Searchers 1956 #JohnWayne | Classic Western Movies

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". The film was a commercial suc