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    An Indian-hating Civil War veteran (John Wayne) tracks down the tribe that slaughtered his family in The Searchers (1956).

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Searchers, The - (Original Trailer)
An Indian-hating Civil War veteran tracks down the tribe...
Searchers, The - (Original Trailer)
An Indian-hating Civil War veteran (John Wayne) tracks down the tribe that slaughtered his family in The Searchers (1956). >
Searchers, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Days Are...
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Searchers, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Days Are Getting Shorter
Scream from Lucy (Pippa Scott) confirms John Ford has moved into horror movie territory, as the Edwards family (Walter Coy, Dorotny Jordan, Robert Lyden, Lana Wood) detects the arrival of the raiding party in The Searchers, 1956.>
Searchers, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) ...
Pictorial high point from director John Ford as Ethan (John...
Searchers, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Unsurrounded
Pictorial high point from director John Ford as Ethan (John Wayne) and Reverend Clayton (Ward Bond) lead their party away from the Comanche led by Scar (Henry Brandon) in The Searchers, 1956.>
Searchers, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Texas, 1868
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Searchers, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Texas, 1868
The famous opening shot through the door (on a landscape seen nowhere in Texas), Aaron Edwards (Walter Coy) and wife Martha (Dorothy Jordan) greet his brother Ethan (John Wayne) returning from the Civil War, in John Ford's recognized masterpiece, The Searchers, 1956.>
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Searchers, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Enter The Spirit World
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