The Searchers [Blu-ray]

Buy This Item The Searchers [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $19.95  on 11-25-2008     Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, a believer more in bullets than in words. He's seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive, five-year quest, Ethan encounters something he didn't expect to find: his own humanity. Reader Reviews I just got my 1080p HDTV and Blu-ray player, and one of my first Blu-ray disc purchases was "The Searchers." All I can say is WOW! The picture looks stunning, especially all the shots in Monument Valley, with crystal clear detail. I had seen "The Searchers" many years ago, but it's a film you really have to see more than once to really appreciate. It's definitely not your typical 1950s western. What's striking about it is the level of implied violence that you don't seen in films even today. Perhaps the violence is so shocking just because the viewer doesn't see it on the screen. We do see the characters' reactions to it though. My thought was that if The Duke can't handle seeing it, then I don't want to either. There's a lot of different layers to "The Searchers," a lot of things going on in the subtext. There's the unspoken yearning between Ethan and Martha, questions about where Ethan went after the war, Ethan's racism and views on religion, etc. And for someone who supposedly wasn't a good actor, John Wayne gives a superb performance (he was always underrated as an actor). The look on his face when he saw his brother's farm burning was just heartbreaking. I wound up watching the movie three times, partly to marvel at the stunning 1080p picture, but also to catch little things that I missed on earlier viewings.

The Searchers [Blu-ray] Available from Amazon Price: $19.95 Updated on 11-25-2008.

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