Review of The Searchers (1956) by Masorad ( — 13 May 2010
Ford storms into Monument Valley intent on historical revisionism & mmmmaybe some armchair Aristotelian poetics whatever, but the nuts & bolts of this western are the pathological suasion Wayne brings into each & every scene he's in, the might-makes-right frontier militarism, VistaVision, and Eisenhower.
Subsumed by the Hollywood machine, Ford doesn't say much of interest here (see Stagecoach or Valance for that) but rather delivers asses-in-the-seats eyecandy that had a rather unfortunate influence on the TV-baby generation of filmmakers whose acolytes we have the misfortune of dealing with today.
This review of The Searchers (1956) was written by Masorad ( on 13 May 2010.
The Searchers has generally received very positive reviews.
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