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    " The story that sweeps from the great Southwest to the Canadian border in VistaVision."
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    Runtime 1 hr 59 min
    Budget $3 750 000
    Premiere: World $1071 May 26, 1956
    Box Office – Budget – $3 748 929
    Premiere: USA May 16, 1956
    Digital: World October 24, 2008
    Production Companies C.V. Whitney Pictures

    Description

    An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother’s family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

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    The Searchers was the first production from "distinguished turfman" C. V. Whitney; it was directed by John Ford and distributed by Warner Bros. While the film was primarily set in the staked plains (Llano Estacado) of northwestern Texas, it was actually filmed in Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah. Additional scenes were filmed in Mexican Hat, Utah, in Bronson Canyon in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, and in Elk Island National Park. The film was shot in the VistaVision widescreen process. Ford originally wanted to cast Fess Parker, whose performance as Davy Crockett on television had helped spark a national craze, in the Jeffrey Hunter role, but Walt Disney, to whom Parker was under contract, refused to allow it and did not tell Parker about the offer, according to Parker's videotaped interview for the Archive of American Television. Parker has said retrospectively that this was easily his worst career reversal.

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    This is not only one of the best Westerns, it is also one of the outstanding films. Not cool, but interesting plot twists. At the time of release, the film seemed like just one of many, but even in Star Wars there is a scene with a farm that the main character is looking at. Watch like a classic. Translated to English