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The Searchers is a 1956 American epic Western film directed by John Ford and written by Frank S. Nugent, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May.It is set during the Texas–Indian wars, and stars John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adopted nephew (Jeffrey Hunter).
American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (1930), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process ...
The connection with Ford led to an association with actor John Wayne, and Worden appeared in 17 of Wayne's films. Foremost among his collaborations with Wayne and Ford in The Searchers , the 1956 classic Western in which Worden portrayed his most memorable role, that of "Mose Harper," the Shakespearean fool who only longed for "a roof over [his ...
B Western Apache Woman: Roger Corman: Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor: At Gunpoint: Alfred L. Werker: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan, Skip Homeier, John Qualen, Whit Bissell, Jack Lambert: Traditional Western Bad Day at Black Rock: John Sturges
Aired: August 5 on NBC; John Wayne starred while Ford did a brief introduction. [214] 1950 The Rex Allen and Phillips 66 Show — Ford appeared in a skit with singing cowboy star Rex Allen. [214] 1962 The Unreal West — Aired: July 25 on CBC; Ford and John Wayne were among the people interviewed for this documentary series hosted by film ...
The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture , among winning a record-setting eleven Oscars .
He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957). [1] They were adapted into the motion pictures The Searchers (1956; starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter, and directed by John Ford) and The Unforgiven (1960; starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, and directed by John Huston).
The Horse Soldiers, starring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers The Hound of the Baskervilles (British), a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Films, starring Peter Cushing as Holmes, Andre Morell as Watson and Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville – ( Britain )