The Searchers (67 page)

Fort Apache
(1948)

Red River
(1948), Howard Hawks

3 Godfathers
(1949)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
(1949)

Sands of Iwo Jima
(1949), Alan Dwan

The Sundowners
(1950), George Templeton

Wagon Master
(1950)

Rio Grande
(1950)

High Lonesome
(1950), Alan LeMay

The Quiet Man
(1952)

Mogambo
(1953)

The High and the Mighty
(1954), William A. Wellman

Mister Roberts
(1955)

Rookie of the Year
(1955), NBC TV

The Searchers
(1956)

Rio Bravo
(1959), Howard Hawks

The Unforgiven
(1960), John Huston

Two Rode Together
(1961)

How the West Was Won
(1962), JF, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, and Richard Thorpe

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962)

Cheyenne Autumn
(1964)

The Green Berets
(1968), John Wayne

The Shootist
(1976), Don Siegel

Documentaries on Ford and Wayne

American Masters: John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker & the Legend

The American West of John Ford
(1971), Denis Sanders

Directed by John Ford
(1971), Peter Bogdanovich (revised 2009)

John Ford Goes to War
(2005), Tom Thurman

The 50th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition DVD of
The Searchers
includes an introduction featuring Patrick Wayne; the theatrical trailer, and voice-over commentary by Peter Bogdanovich; as well as:

The Searchers: An Appreciation

A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and
The Searchers (1998), Nick Redman.

Four clips from
Warner Brothers Presents: Meet Jeffrey Hunter, Monument Valley, Meet Natalie Wood, Setting Up Production

Music

John Ford's Western Masterpiece The Searchers: Original Film Soundtrack Composed and Conducted by Max Steiner
(CD). London: EL Records, 2007.

Glenn Frankel worked for twenty-seven years for the
Washington Post
, as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor of the
Washington Post Magazine
. As Jerusalem bureau chief, he won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for “sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East.” His first book,
Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel
, won the National Jewish Book Award. His second,
Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa
was a finalist for South Africa's prestigious Alan Paton Award. Frankel has been an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow and a visiting professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. He is currently the Director of the School of Journalism and holds the G. B. Dealey Regents Professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.

Beyond the Promised Land:
Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel

Rivonia's Children:
Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa

Copyright © 2013 by Glenn Frankel

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Frankel, Glenn.
The searchers : the making of an American legend / Glenn Frankel.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN: 978-1-62040-064-7
1. Searchers (Motion picture) 2. Historical films—United States—History and
criticism. 3. Motion pictures and history. 4. Comanche Indians—Texas—History—19th
century. 5. Massacres—Texas—History—19th century. 6. Indian captivities—Texas.
I. Title.
PN1997.S3197F83 2013
791.43'72—dc23
2012029453

First U.S. edition 2013
Electronic edition published in February 2013

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