John Ford - Sentieri Selvaggi (1956) [DVD5 PAL]

John Ford - Sentieri Selvaggi (1956) [DVD5 PAL]


Original title The Searchers
Country of manufacture United States of America
Year 1956
Duration 119 min
Ratio 1.75: 1
Western genre
Directed by John Ford
Subject from the novel The Searchers by Alan Le May
Screenplay Frank S. Nugent
Producer Merian C. Cooper for Warner Bros.

Interpreters and characters

John Wayne: Ethan Edwards
Jeffrey Hunter: Martin Pawley
Vera Miles: Laurie Jorgensen
Natalie Wood: Debbie Edwards as a teenager
Ward Bond: Reverend Clayton
Olive Carey: Maria Jorgensen
John Qualen: Lars Jorgensen
Harry Carey Jr .: Brad Jorgensen
Ken Curtis: Charlie McCorry
Henry Brandon: Scout leader
Hank Worden: Mose Harper
Dorothy Jordan: Martha Edwards
Walter Coy: Aaron Edwards
Lana Wood: Debbie Edwards as a child
Robert Lyden: Ben Edwards
Pippa Scott: Lucy Edwards
Antonio Moreno: Emilio Figueroa
Patrick Wayne: Lieutenant Greenhill
William Steele: Nesby
Peter Mamakos: Jerem Futterman

Language: English French Italian
Subtitles: English French Italian Dutch Arabic Bulgarian
Romanian Portuguese Spanish German
Version 4: 3 and 16: 9

The Searchers is a 1956 western film directed by John Ford in Technicolor.

In 1989 he was selected for conservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in 96th place in the ranking of the best one hundred US films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it climbed to twelfth place.
The film is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alan Le May, who personally conducted research on 64 cases of children abducted by Indians. Debbie's character is believed to be inspired by that of Cynthia Ann Parker, a nine-year-old girl kidnapped by the Comanche who stormed her home in Fort Parker, Texas. He lived 24 years with the Comanches, married a chief and had three children, one of whom was the famous chief Quanah Parker. Her uncle James W. Parker spent much of his life and fortune finding her, like Ethan in the film. She was finally released, against her will, in an attack quite similar to the one described in the film.