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Reacting to THE SEARCHERS (1956) | Movie Reaction - บันเทิง
The Duke should have won an oscar for this portrayal. What a redemption story!
That one and Red River as well
Should've earned at least 3 or 4 in his distinguished career
@@smg85051 Not far from the truth. He was overlooked for nominations a few times, The Shootist, The High And The Mighty, some more... Some were for political reasons, some were poor advertisement from the studio like The Shootist, which was Oscar worthy acting.
@@svene.3856 John Wayne and Cary Grant were both at a disadvantage when it came to the Oscars because neither was ever contracted to a major film studio and therefore never had the full weight of studio campaigns to back them up. In thirty five years they only received four Oscar nominations between them when they should have had twelve.
The Searchers should've won at least six Oscars:
Best Actor - Duke
Best Picture - Merrian C. Cooper
Best Supporting Actor - Jeffrey Hunter
Best Director - John Ford
Best Adapted Screenplay - Frank S. Nugent
Best Cinematography - Winton C. Hoch
Could've won
Best Supporting Actress - Vera Miles or Olive Carey
Best Musical Score - Max Steiner
Laurie is the girl from 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance', Vera Miles. She turned in a solid performance in every part she ever had and she is still with us, 93 years young.
She also played Lila Crane in Psycho (1960).
@Roy Phillips She was in Psycho 2 as well.
@@Madbandit77 Hitchcock also wanted her to play Madeleine/Judy in Vertigo but Miles was pregnant at the time.
She lived in my hometown, Pratt(KS) when she was in high school. A friend of mine’s dad spoke about how good looking she was. She won Ms Kansas in 1948.
I just realized that earlier today. That it was Vera Miles in both roles. I can’t wait to watch the whole movie again, even though she’s only in the first part.
The back story is that Ethan and Martha were in love and that Debbie is Ethan's daughter.
Also Martin is Ethan's son from another woman he loved who was killed by the Comanche and he dropped him off to be raised by Aaron and Martha. When he tells him about the scalp being his mothers, that's what he's referring to.
there is a long synapse of the entire movie; what each movie scene represents; how two scenes are connected; the cabin represents family; we see groups of people together as family, Ethan Edwards stands alone; near the start of the movie we see Ethan Edwards lifting young Debbie Edwards in the air thinking it was her older sister; near the end the the movie we see Ethan Edwards lifting an older Debbie Edwards; at the end we see the family entering the cabin Ethan Edwards does not
The flat-topped rock formations go by two names. The larger ones are called mesas ( _mesa_ is Spanish for table), the narrow ones are called buttes (from the French _butte_ a mound or hillock).
Yep. We have 'em here in Colorado. They don't fall.
Like many of John Ford's westerns, "The Searchers" was shot in a place called "Monument Valley" (named for the rock formations found there).
To avoid embarrassment you should have let Dawn know the pronunciation.
Byoots, not butts.
Really big ones are plateaus, next in size are mesas, then buttes. The smallest ones have lots of names, including pillar, spire, tower, needle and hoodoo.
@@MrVvulf There's no "Y" in the pronunciation, unless you're in the deep south. Here in the west, we pronounce it "beauts" as in beauty.
"That'll be the day" was a phrase John Wayne used over and over in this film. Buddy Holly later used the phrase, which he got from the movie, to write one of his famous rock and roll songs; "That'll be the Day."
Steven Spielberg watches this movie every time he is about to start a new project. It's that influential.
That was my Dad's favorite John Wayne movie,,,, rip Dad.
At the end when he stands in the door with his arms folded, it was a tribute to Wayne's favorite cowboy
"where's your horse?"
Horses are not automobiles. He rode it to death because he didn't listen to his uncle.
Although when I was young I drove my car to death. 😉
"It was your mother's"
"What? How'd he know?"
Because Ethan was the one who found Martin as a baby.
Martin might just have been Ethan’s son.
@@12classics39that was my guess too. Hated the Indians that did it….that’s why he wanted to kill them all, or as many as he could.
Thanksgiving in a nutshell: In 1620 a number of Protestant separatists (Pilgrims) left England and settled in Massachusetts in New England at a town named Plymouth. The winter was difficult and the land was not developed. The colony nearly starved (a number died) but a local Indian tribe helped them survive and taught them how to grow crops suitable for their location. At the next harvest, the Pilgrims had abundant food and they had a feast and invited the Indians to share their food. They gave thanks to God and to their friends for their assistance. The central dish at Thanksgiving is a roast Turkey (abundant in New England woodland) usually served with cranberries that grow in local bogs. We celebrate it on the last Thursday in November. It really marks a happy time of togetherness between Colonist and Native Americans.
The big rocks are called Mesa's. This was filmed in a place called Monument Valley.
The film beautifully opens and closes with the entrance scenes of the cabin. These are iconic film shots showing the genius of John Ford. At the end you see the darkness as Debbie enters, a whole new world opens to her. She is looking all around as she enters. John Wayne, on the other hand, is an outsider to civilization. He doesn't join in the welcoming scene. He is the loner who sadly must pursue a different course than domestic life. His melancholy walk outside is a brilliant piece of visual storytelling by Ford and acting by Wayne.
And the song, with the lyrics.
This movie was loosely and I mean loosely based on a true incident that happened in Texas when the Comanches, who dominated the land and other native nations. They would raid and destroy, kill, loot and take hostages. The child's name was Cynthia Parker and eventually she assimilated into the tribe, became a wife at 15 or 16 and bore a son who would later become a fierce warrior and chief, by the name of Quana Parker. My husband read a book about his life and we both watched a documentary of his life. He became a celebrity and had a large home and many kids!
Martin was played by Jeffrey Hunter, who played Capt Pike in the original pilot for Star Trek (TOS) and Jesus Christ in "King of Kings". He was getting pretty popular until he kicked the bucket in 1969 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Jeffrey was also in another John Ford film "Sergeant Rutledge" with Woody Strode.
Jeffrey Hunter also played Gabby Gaboldin in "Hell to Eternity". A movie well worth seeing.
One of my Favorite movies.
john wayne actually got to meet The real Wyatt Earp, his iconic swagger and manner of speach is influnced by what he saw in Earp. For John wayne movies the 1969 TRUE GRIT is a must, this is the role where John wayne won the Oscar at the acadamey awards for best actor.
Not only that, Earp told him to change his name cause nobody would ever respect a cowboy named Marion.
No, John Wayne never met Wyatt Earp at all. That is one of those charming Old Hollywood fables. All that Wayne knew of Wyatt Earp he got second hand from director John Ford who did know Wyatt Earp.
@@Patrick-xv6qv show me some articles or something because everything I can find says yes he did while working as a prop hand so show me a quote from a credible source or what you said is irrelevant.
@@frost1977 you will find several sites that claim they met and even that Wayne was Earps coffee boy amd some even go further that they formed a close friendship and Watne was one of Earps pallbearers. Those are all myths. There are other sites that tell those were myths and the 2 never met.
I am basing my comment that Wayne and Earp.met was a myth based on 2 of the several biographies I have read about John Wayne including the foremost and most accurate, John Wayne; the Life and the Legend by Scott Eyman who has written several books about actors and producers from the Golden Age of Hollywood and is considered an expert on the subject.
Botj books about Wayne stated that Wayne and Earp never met and that they did was a myth fabricated by Hollywood public relations to give John Wayne more popularity, as if he needed it.
Martin Pauly killed Scar when he rescued Debbie from the Teepee.
I've seen this film many, many times, but it's fun watching this lass enjoying it and her commentary is adorable
"Don't apologize, it's a sign of weakness." That's a line from John Wayne's character Captain Nathan Brittles in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon."
Seriously, no need to apologize for watching the greatest western movie ever filmed.
If you re-watch The Searchers notice the interactions between Ethan and his sister-in-law. The way she strokes his coat, the way he kisses her goodbye on her forehead (while the Reverend Captain uncomfortably eats his donut). There was something going on when he left 7 years earlier. Maybe he was even Debbie's father.
Also when he returns to the burning ranch he calls out for Martha twice, but not for anyone else.
At least he believed he could be. The movie couldn’t be explicit, but the thought that his daughter was having sex with Indians fueled his hatred.
When I first started watching TH-cam, I never would have predicted that a Scottish woman watch classic American westerns would be one of my favorite things on TH-cam. Best reactions ever.
To use Dawn's phrasing, it's lovely to watch someone learn something of the American Western culture.
Mac and me Wow. That was rough going. Somehow the film is even more terrible than any article written about it, any podcast that covered it, and any clips on TH-cam could reflect. This tedious garbage goes on seemingly forever, with a pace that’s glacial and characters that are both unappealing and unconvincing, alien or otherwise.😮😢😱😨🙀
I think Dawn's the first reactor I've seen who can cope with the tone shifts that John Ford usually indulged in as a matter of course but which often confuse and alarm modern viewers. Ford liked silly characters and comedy as a palate cleanser - Charlie McCrory in this movie is a prime example. Most reviewers I've seen really don't like the whiplash going back and forth from seriousness to goofiness, but as bizarre as it seems older moviegoers weren't as... I was going to say 'intolerant' but that's not quite what I mean.... and set in their ways as a lot of modern ones.
@@mikesilva3868 Everyone's entitled to their opinion, even when it's incredibly wrong 👍
lol same here
Also, glad to say, Vera Miles is still alive in her 90's
I liked her here and in Psycho
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by early settlers on the east coast of America. They invited the Indians who had helped them to learn to cultivate and hunt the unfamiliar new land. They were giving thanks to God for the bountiful harvest and the friendship of the Indians. Thanksgiving became a national holiday in the mid-20th century.
There’s a reason this is considered the best western film ever.
The location is Monument Valley, Arizona, filming site of many classic westerns and, eventually, "Back To The Future III". Hapless Charlie McCorry is played by Ken Curtis, who became part of the cast of "Gunsmoke", the longest running western in tv history, appearing himself for the last nine seasons. The tribes are indeed real and, presently, there are 574 officially recognized Native American tribes in North America.
One of the top 5 westerns. The movie was dedicated to legendary silent western star Harry Carey Sr. A great friend of director John Ford and John Wayne. His son, Harry Carey Jr., was the boyfriend of the murdered girl Lucy. And Carey's widow played the older woman who gave Moes his rocking chair. John Wayne's walk out the doorway at the end was from Harry Carey's way of walking and holding his forearm and done as a dedication to him.
It wasn't that she didn't want to go back... what happened right after she showed up? The Comanche attacked. She was telling them to go away and leave her because _she did not want them killed_ . Ethan misinterpreted this as her having become Comanche.
In the script, it explained that she didn't know the Comanches killed her family, they'd only told her they had rescued her.
The Searchers is one of my favorite John Wayne westerns. Probably tied with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and The Shootist are probably my top three John Wayne westerns.
Hondo.
I’ve loved the Duke since I was a kid in the 80s-90s. In 1991 the aired the 3D version of Hondo. His daughter introduced the movie. I still have the 3D glasses and I cut the advert out of the TV Guide and kept it too.
Rio Bravo for me. The Searchers is a close second though
Ethan, Wayne's character, is a very complex person. Most harp on his hatred of Indians as some sort of modern day racism. Also, the fact that he fought for the Confederacy is deemed "white supremacy" in today's baby talk lingo. He's a very dark character, but these ideologies don't explain him. Small land holders didn't own slaves and didn't fight for the CSA for white supremacy. They fought because they were invaded and were bound together with their neighbors. It's implied that Ethan didn't make peace with the USA after the war. He likely took to a life of banditry, robbing Yankee banks and trains, like Jesse James and his gang of former Confederates. Ethan returns totally disillusioned with those who abandoned the old ways and alienated from the new ways that were arising. He's the total outsider. The Indians become the scapegoat for all of his losses and suffering.
What's the matter with you, boy? Don't you know it's 2023 and you are not allowed to talk sense?
The first time Debbie ran to them, she was trying to get them to leave because she knew the tribe was going to attack. It's not that she didn't want to go, she was just afraid for them. The leader of the rangers, at the end was stabbed in the butt during the charge by the young calvary man you said was going to sword someone. That's why he was staring at the boy menacingly while he was being stitched up.
The reason the natives attacked the ranch, to begin with, was because the ranchers and settlers were encroaching on their lands.
When Marty was in the tent to save Debbie, a native disturbed them and Marty spun around and shot him. That was the war chief Scar.
Great reaction to a great movie.
Fun fact Lieutenant Greenhill was played by John Wayne's son Patrick.
The actor who played Scar is Henry Brandon. He played the villain Barnaby in the Laurel and Hardy movie, March of the Wooden Soldiers.
The film was shot in Monument Valley which is spread over an area where Utah and Arizona come together. They said it was west Texas at the beginning of the film but that was only for dramatic purposes. There is nothing like that in Texas. The tall, solitary rock formations are actually the cores of ancient volcanoes where the mountains have worn away leaving only the cores. Spectacular to film Westerns in that area. The landscape becomes a third character in every Western. There are "hoodoos" all over the western US and Canada, but nothing like the size of of the ones in Monument Valley. The buffalo hunting scenes were filmed in Alberta, as there were no decent sized herds left in the US in the 1950s. Along with "Tombstone," "The Searchers" is my favourite Western. 🤠💖
The guy playing his dad in the first ghost's deal is his brother Brian Murray - also the mayor in Groundhog Day.
The Searchers and several other John Ford/John Wayne movies were filmed in Monument Valley, Arizona where there is an abundance of spectacular rock formations. Two very special formations look like left & right hands due to a single spire rising up that would be a thumb. They're named "The Right Mitten" & "The Left Mitten"
I was fortunate enough to spend the better part of a day in Monument Valley and made the acquaintance of two Navajo men on horseback, right at the stream & sand dune where Ethan & Marty hole up & Debbie comes running down to Ethan. A trip to remember.
I believe scar was killed by martin and when wayne found him dead, he scalped him. The scene when wayne chases down debbie in the sand/dirt, raises her above his head, and then cradles her, is one of most iconic scenes in film history. I remember this film was originally shown in black and white and was arguably legendary director john ford's greatest movie.
My favorite John Wayne movie, and one of the best Westerns ever made. And definitely the best ending shot with John Wayne framed in the doorway as the door closes. Don't apologize for doing Westerns on your channel, I can tell how much you like them.
It might have been in B/W on your B/W TV, but it was shot in TechniColor.
This was a color film. Perhaps you saw it on a B&W TV.
@@Mac40581 it was shot in black and white. Ford did that to convey despair and stagnation.
@@normlee6566 Then why do all the original movie posters say "Technicolor"?
Charlie McCorory was played by Ben Curtis and was Festus in Gunsmoke
John Wayne in... She wore a yellow ribbon.... great film...
So the one part where Ethan and Mose stop and rest and feed their horses... Marty Goes on.. and when they catch up with Marty - he's on foot; meaning Marty's horse couldn't make it
Some answers for you. The "hills" are called Mesa's, which is Spanish for "table", because they are flat on top. The Comanche Chief named "Scar" was the person at the beginning of the movie that captured Debbie, and later made her one of his wives. And he was shot by Marty, (Jeffrey Hunter) when they rescued Debbie, (Natalie Wood) and yes he was scalped by Ethan (John Wayne), as retribution for all the past nastiness. "The Searchers" was Directed by John Ford, one of the best directors ever, he influenced the Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa, and the Italian Director Sergio Leone, who did all the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns, and many, many others. Ford used real Native Americans, Hopi's mostly, for the Natives in the movie, and he was beloved by the Hopi for the way he treated them, and paid them. They had very few opportunities out in the Arizona desert. The location is Monument Valley, a place Ford used many times in his movies.
The one Dawn is referring to is a butte 13:42
Though it was filmed in Monument Valley AZ, for the story it was supposed to represent TX.
@@JohnnyUtah15 You forgot, and I did too, about the "Mittens", the most famous of the rock formations.
@@bobschenkel7921 Yep, that’s them.
In the western U.S. a flat topped outcropping is called a "mesa" (Spanish). Also known as a plateau or butte.
John Wayne's catch phrase, "That'll be the day" inspired Buddy Holly to write his hit song, "That'll Be The Day (When I Die)
Wayne worked as a young man on Hollywood sets and met the real Wyatt Earp on one. Rumor is his walk and speech as a cowboy was modeled after Earp.
John Wayne's tag line of That'll be the Day was the inspiration for Buddy Holiday's song That'll be the Day. A double eagle was a god coin worth $20.
I think you combined "Buddy Holly" and "Billie Holiday". LOL
*gold coin
Even the critics who often panned the Duke's movies said this was one of his best rolls.
@9:10, I live in that noise, it grows on you, it becomes very peaceful sounding, if you hear it, it means nature is alive and everything is calm and as it should be, when you don't hear the animals is when you should worry.
Those formations go by several names. Bluffs, mesas, outcroppings, red rocks, volcanic plugs, cliffs. Most all of these golden age classic westerns were all filmed in Monument Valley in southern Utah
I know it’s a year late … and someone may have already said this in the comments but this film is very loosely based on the experience of an American woman named Cynthia Ann Parker who was kidnapped by the Comanche Indians . She was adopted into the tribe, married a Comanche war chief and had a son named Quanah Parker who was one of the greatest Comanche chiefs in the history of the tribe.
This is filmed in Monument Valley in Utah. Notice the shots through doorways? At the end is John Wayne, holding his arm, a tribute to Harry Carey, a great actor who died before this movie and is the father of Brad and the husband of the farm wife.
The film is based on a true story. The Comanches kidnapped Cynthia Ann Parker who was raised as a member of the tribe and became the mother of the famous Comanche chief Quanah Parker.
Im going to Scotland in June. It's nice to know there are some Scots that appreciate Westerns.
Check out the 'BA Cowboys', from Falkirk 😁
The setting of Luke’s house in Star Wars is based on the homestead - the shot of Wayne’s framed in the doorway has been repeated in numerous films since, including Star Wars.
Let's go home, Debbie. My favourite line in any film. Comes as such a relief. One of the very few all-time great movies not to receive a single Oscar nomination!
Ethan keeps saying "That'll be the day." This actually inspired Buddy Holly to write the rock song with that title.
Those rock formations are buttes. The film is shot in Monument Valley, in northeast Arizona.
One of my favorite western's and films of all time. You can @Dawn watch all the John Ford (director) John Wayne (actor) films and you will adore each and every one
Those flat-topped mountains are called 'mesa' plural 'mesas'.
One of the best, if not, the greatest influential western movies ever made.
"What if like their tribe is humongous, and there are like... only 10 of you guys?"
Well... that's what Texicans call "a fair fight".
Vera Miles who plays Laurie was in many who shot Liberty Vamens and Psycho. Ward Bond was a big supporting actor in some icon films for decades. One of his earliest was in Gone with the Wind.
9:38--This is where Buddy Holly got the line "That'll Be the Day."
13:40--butte
19:07--Ken Curtis played Festus on "Gunsmoke."
32:08--John Wayne's son Patrick
I was born in 1956.
39:23--Thanksgiving
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
She wanted to go home with them, but having been with the Comanches for so many years she was afraid if they tried to take her they would be killed so she tried to make them go.
John Ford, The director of this film, shot many of his westerns in Monument Valley.
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor.[1] It is located on the Utah-Arizona state line, near the Four Corners area. The valley is a sacred area that lies within the territory of the Navajo Nation Reservation, the Native American people of the area
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns; critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 km2] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West".
Scar was the indian that Marty shot, in the tent. When Ethan found his body, he took his scalp. The Ranger Captain got stabbed in the ass, by somebody.
The director, John Ford, wanted to imply that Wayne’s character had had an affair with his brother’s wife and that the children might just be his. The same way that he implied Wayne had stolen the gold coins either from the mint or by stealing an army payroll. (we get that when he talks to the head of the rangers about having forgotten his oath to the Confederacy while Ethan had supposedly remained loyal to his despite the war being over) This was the first film appearance by Wayne’s real life son Patrick (as the young cavalry officer who comes to the house to get them) he was only 14 years old at the time. When Wayne has him turn around so they can see his uniform and then upon seeing his back says “Oh yeah, that’s Yankee cavalry.” as if he only recognized them when they were retreating is one of my favorite digs ever.
Among the many filmmakers this has influenced, the most visible one is Paul Schrader, who wrote TAXI DRIVER (which Martin Scorsese directed), and on his own made the films HARDCORE, AFFLICTION, FIRST REFORMED, THE CARD COUNTER, and has a new film, THE MASTER GARDENER, getting released now. I think he summed up the theme of this classic as, "The price of vengeance is you have no home."
Something I find particularly interesting is that in the '70s, when Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and other directors were in Los Angeles partying with each other, Schrader had initially attempted to script CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND for Spielberg, but ultimately left it because he had a darker view of humanity than Spielberg wanted for the film. Decades later, when Spielberg directed MUNICH, it has an ending very reminiscent of THE SEARCHERS, so it's almost as if he finally came around to Schrader's worldview.
In 1956, Buddie Holly and the Crickets had a hit with "That'll Be The Day".
That may be the source of "That'll be the day, pilgrim." from this movie.
Or vice a versa.
The reason Lucy suddenly screams hysterically toward the beginning is that she realizes the house is surrounded and they’re about to be attacked. And considering what was done to kidnapped women during this era, I don’t think death is the prospect that makes her react like that.
One of the best cowboy films, and Wayne plays such a dark role.
This is the movie that inspired Buddy Holly to write the song That'll Be The Day.
In prehistoric times there was an inland sea that covered much of the of our western states. Those flat topped mountains are called mesas. They owe their shapes from erosion originally by water and later wind and rain.
Those rock formation in the landscape is called a "Mesa" - These Mesa's are in Monument Valley Arizona, very famous location in cinema, due to John Ford's love of shooting there for many of his westerns.
This movie inspired Buddy Holley to write a song. "That'll Be The Day".
"Charlie" the ranger is Ken Curtis, a Ford Company regular who appeared in many movies with John Wayne and he usually sang a song or two in them; he was a member of The Sons Of The Pioneers.
Believe it or not, he played the part of "Festus" in Gunsmoke.
He also voiced Nutsy the vulture in the 1973 Disney animated Robin Hood
Those rocky protrusions are called buttes pronounced like beaut, which is what you are. They were formed in prehistory when that area of the Utsh/Arizona border was part of a vast oceans which receded to form the land there now. The Searchers is based on an actual event; there's an excellent book about it also called The Searchers discussing both the history and the film.
John Wayne's walk is very important because he patterned his style after the one and only "Wyatt Earp" an actual legend of the old West.
I always suspected that John Wayne's character was martyns father
The modern term for the Comanche's intention for Debbie was "grooming". They were grooming her to be a wife because she was too young to sexually abuse and kill. Lucy was old enough to sexually abuse and kill... so they enjoyed themselves... as they did with Martha.
The movie is loosely based on a true story. There was a girl by the name of Parker who was captured by the Comanches at the age of 9. She lived with them for 23 years. Her mother wanted her back and when they found her again she was an adult with a husband and 3 children who barely remembered English. When they asked her if she wanted to go back home she just shook her head and pointed at her kids. Eventually three years later (iirc)a group of Texas Rangers attacked a camp of Comanches and “rescued” her and one daughter. Her son Quanna Parker was one of the last Comanche war chiefs to fight the U.S. Army.
13:52 As it has already been pointed out the land formation is called a mesa. They are caused by water erosion of a shoreline without the benefit of shading trees.
Probably the best western ever made, The Shootist is a great film as well
Gosh young Lady can’t believe you watched this flick , you give me hope, I enjoyed your reactions 👍🙏✌️😊
That whole area with the rock formations looks that way because once upon a time, millions of years ago... it was the bottom of an ocean.
This is my favourite John Wayne film. When I was a wee lad, my late grandfather used to visit on a Saturday, he'd come down from Aberdeen and we'd watch a John Wayne film. His favourite was The Quiet Man.
Those rock formations are called Buttes. That is monument valley and it is in the border with Arizona and Utah. There are many differnt tribes and they are still around today
The guy in this movie who played the Captain of the Rangers and was also going to marry Laurie and Charlie is the same guy who played the catholic priest in Quiet Man.
A "double eagle" is a 20 dollar gold coin. Ethan has profited since the war (he has enough to start his own ranch), but he doesn't fit in (notice how awkward he is around his brother, they may have pursued the same woman).
Did you notice, the burning house at the beginning, looks like Luke home in Star Wars? That was deliberate.
Ethan is both utterly determined to find Debbie, and torn over whether to kill her, he and Scar know too much about "the other" and don't really fit in.
The Comanche were the last tribe to submit and were a force on the west Texas frontier since Spanish times.
The poor put-upon lieutenant at the end is one of Wayne's sons (one of the younger ones was named Ethan, after this movie).
The "square mountain" is called a Mesa .
an isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides, as found in arid and semi-arid areas of the US.
The young soldier that brought Old Mose to them near the end, is John Wayne's son, in real life.
movie suggestion......SHANE 1953
Buddy Holly wrote the song “That’ll Be the Day” after seeing this film at the movie theater in 1956.
Lt Greenhill is Pat Wayne... John Wayne's son.
As part of a past job I often worked with Navajo guides and none of them took offense at being called indians. In fact that is what they often called themselves. They also referred to Navajo people as "Dineh" which basically just meant "The People", as I recall.
Those weird mountains are called "buttes" Pronounced "BEWtes"
One of me Dads favs
Another must see John Wayne movie is his last, "The Shootist".
This starred John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Jimmy Stewart and Ron Howard (now a famous director).
The protagonist (Wayne) is a retired gunslinger who is dying of cancer, at the same time Wayne was also dying of cancer (dying a few years later).
Bit of Trivia: In "Big trouble in little China", Kurt Russell modelled his character after John Wayne
Debra was played by two actresses: Natalie Wood and her little sister, for the different age scenes.
The head of the rangers was played by Ward Bond, who was a good friend of John Wayne's and was in a lot of his movies.
The blonde boy in love with Lucy was Harry Carey, jr, son of John Wayne's good friend Harry Carey, sr. Wayne and Carey sr _invented_ the barroom brawl in movies, together.
Old Mose was in several Wayne movies as well, including "The Alamo".
"He who follows" Martin Pawley, was played by Jeffrey Hunter. Most Star Trek fans will recognize him as Captain Christopher Pike, commander of the USS Enterprise before it was given to Captain James Tiberius Kirk.
Martin's love interest, Laurie, was played by Vera Miles. She played the love interest of both John Wayne and Jimmy Steward in the western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". She was in another, modern movie with John Wayne, "Hellfighters", where she played Wayne's estranged wife.
Swenson, his neighbor, was played by the same actor, John Qualan, who owned the restaurant in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". He was also in "Casablanca" and one of my favorite Jimmy Stewart movies, "Firecreek".
Henry Kleinbach, who played Scar, played the creepy landlord, Silas Barnaby, in "March Of The Wooden Soldiers" with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. He also played a cop in "John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13".
And Harry Carey Jr.'s real life mom, Olive Carey, plays Laurie's mom in this movie.
@@Madbandit77 Born Heinrich von Kleinbach, aka Henry Brandon by the 1940s.
This is a John Ford Movie and Ford used many of the same actors in his movies (the John Ford Road Company) . A demanding Director he liked to work with actors who knew how he worked and he know how to get the best out of.
And the yankee cavalryman was played by John Waynes son, Patrick.
How did he know it was his mum's scalp? Ethan is the father of Martyn!