They Were Expendable (1945)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
The Fugitive (1947)
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.
A Note on the Author
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.
By the Same Author
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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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.
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Electronic edition published in February 2013
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