The Searchers

by Edward Buscombe

Overview

John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight&Sound's most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America's most distinguished contemporary filmmakers, among them Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, and John Milius, is enormous. John Wayne's portrait of the vengeful Confederate Ethan Edwards gives the film a truly epic dimension, as does his long and lonely journey into the dark heart of America. Edward Buscombe's insightful study provides a detailed commentary on all aspects of the film, drawing on material in the John Ford archive at Indiana University, including Ford's own memos and the original script, which differs in vital respects from the film he made, to offer new insights into the film's production history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839024702
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/24/2022
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Edward Buscombe is a writer and critic based in London, UK. Former Head of Publishing at the British Film Institute, he is the editor of The BFI Companion to the Western (1988) and the author of Stagecoach (1992) and Unforgiven (2004) in the BFI Film Classics series, and 100 Westerns in the BFI Screen Guides series.
EDWARD BUSCOMBE is Visiting Professor of Media Arts at Southampton Institute, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword to the 2022 Edition
'The Searchers'
Notes
Credits
Bibliography