With The Searchers, Ford channeled American culture and history into one complex, layered, and wounded man in Ethan Edwards (Wayne). The film follows a years-long odyssey across the New Frontier ...

Ethan Edwards, an embittered veteran, returns to Texas after the Civil War and discovers that Comanche Indians have killed his family and kidnapped his niece. Along with Martin Pawley, who was ...

Directed by western genre pioneer John Ford, The Searchers revolves around Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards, who’s been struggling to find a new purpose in life since the end of the war.

The Searchers. Based on Alan LeMay’s novel, it is still a powerful tale of race, violence and redemption as Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) searches for his niece Debbie, abducted by a Comanche ...