The Searchers (1956)


John Wayne              Ethan Edwards
Jeffrey Hunter          Martin Pawley
Vera Miles              Laurie Jorgensen
Ward Bond               Captain Reverend Clayton
Natalie Wood            Debbie Edwards
John Qualen             Lars Jorgensen
Olive Carey             Mrs Jorgensen
Henry Brandon           Chief Scar
Ken Curtis              Charlie McCorry
Harry Carey Jr          Brad Jorgensen
Antonio Moreno          Emilio Figueroa
Patrick Wayne           Lieutenant Greenhill
Hank Worden             Mose Harper
Lana Wood               Debbie Edwards--as a Child
Walter Coy              Aaron Edwards
Dorothy Jordan (II)     Martha Edwards
Pippa Scott             Lucy Edwards

Directed by:            John Ford
Produced by:            Merian C. Cooper, Patrick Ford, C. V. Whitney


Ethan Edwards, an embittered veteran, returns to Texas after the Civil War and discovers that Comanche Indians 
have killed his family and kidnapped his nieces. Along with Martin Pawley, who was adopted by the Edwardses 
after his own parents were killed by Comanches years earlier, Ethan sets out to find his remaining niece, 
Debbie. The movie's title refers to the duo's five year search for the young woman, and their struggle to 
rescue her once she is adopted by the tribe and married to Chief Scar.

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Ethan Edwards, returned from the Civil War to the Texas ranch of his brother, hopes to find a home with his 
family and to be near the woman he obviously but secretly loves. But a Comanche raid destroys these plans, 
and Ethan sets out, along with his 1/8 Indian nephew Martin, on a years-long journey to find the niece 
kidnapped by the Indians under Chief Scar. But as the quest goes on, Martin begins to realize that his 
uncle's hatred for the Indians is beginning to spill over onto his now-assimilated niece. Martin becomes 
uncertain whether Ethan plans to rescue Debbie...or kill her.

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Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate soldier from the Indian Wars, finds that his family has been massacred 
and his niece captured by the Comanches and vows to bring her back and kill everyone of the Indians who 
did this to him. He travels for five years in order to find her and when he does realizes even though she 
has been found she has become one of them.

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When Ethan Edwards decide to go find the Indians who killed his family, he is joined by his nephew, 
Martin Pawley. The problem is that Pawley is 1/8th Indian and there's nothing in the world that Edwards 
hates more than Indians. The journey to find the Indians and Edwards' niece last for years.