John Wayne's The Searchers is an exceptional study of life, family, and filmmaking.
and a very young Natalie Wood. Unbeknownst to me at the time was that the viewing would coincide exactly with Wayne’s birthday. He would have turned 117.
Ethan dismounts and is greeted by his brother Aaron, played by Walter Coy. Joining Aaron are his children, Lucy, Ben, and Debbie. After a brief exchange of pleasantries, they all move indoors, thus ending the opening sequence. Then disaster strikes: While Ethan is away, a Cherokee raiding party led by the murderous warlord Scar massacres the Edwards family, killing Aaron, Ben, and, most important of all, Martha. Lucy is captured and murdered elsewhere. Only young Debbie survives, taken as a prisoner by Scar’s raiding party. Ethan and his adoptive nephew, Martin, then embark on a grueling five-year odyssey to bring the girl home.
Rescuing Martha’s sole surviving child was all Ethan had following her murder. Having completed this task, though, he no longer has any sense of purpose, certainly not inside Jorgenson’s
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