The Searchers (film)

The Searchers
Poster rilis layar lebar AS Bill Gold
Sutradara	John Ford
Produser	Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Skenario	Frank S. Nugent
Berdasarkan	The Searchers novel tahun 1954 oleh Alan Le May
Pemeran	John Wayne Jeffrey Hunter Vera Miles Ward Bond Natalie Wood
Penata musik	Musik Asli: Max Steiner Lagu Pembuka: Stan Jones
Sinematografer	Winton C. Hoch
Penyunting	Jack Murray
Perusahaan produksi	C.V. Whitney Pictures
Distributor	Warner Bros.
Tanggal rilis	13 Maret 1956 (1956-03-13)
Durasi	119 menit
Negara	Amerika Serikat
Bahasa	Inggris
Anggaran	$3.75 juta[1]

The Searchers adalah sebuah film Barat Technicolor VistaVision Amerika 1956 yang disutradarai oleh John Ford, berdasarkan pada novel tahun 1954 karya Alan Le May, berlatar belakang Peperangan Texas–Indian, dan dibintangi oleh John Wayne sebagai seorang veteram Perang Saudara Amerika yang mencari kemenakannya yang diculik (Natalie Wood), ditemani keponakan angkatnya (Jeffrey Hunter). Kritikus Roger Ebert menyebut karkater Wayne, Ethan Edwards, "salah satu karakter paling cocok yang Ford dan Wayne pernah buat".^[2]

Referensi

Daftar pustaka

• Alvis, J. David, and John E. Alvis. "Heroic Virtue and the Limits of Democracy in John Ford's The Searchers." Perspectives on Political Science 38#2 (2009): 69–78.
• Clauss, James J. "Descent into Hell: Mythic Paradigms in The Searchers." Journal of Popular Film and Television 27#3 (1999): 2–17.
• Cohen, Hubert I. "Red River and The Searchers: Deception in the Modern Western." Film Criticism 35#1 (2010): 82–102 online
• Day, Kirsten. "" What Makes a Man to Wander?": The Searchers as a Western Odyssey." Arethusa 41#1 (2008): 11–49. online
• Eckstein, Arthur M. "Darkening Ethan: John Ford's 'The Searchers' (1956) from Novel to Screenplay to Screen." Cinema Journal (1998): 3–24. online
• Eckstein, Arthur M., and Peter Lehman, eds. The searchers: essays and reflections on John Ford's classic western (Wayne State University Press, 2004)
• Frankel, Glenn (2013). The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-105-5.  excerpt and text search
• Freedman, Jonathan. "The Affect of the Market: Economic and Racial Exchange in The Searchers." American Literary History (2000): 585–599. in JSTOR
• Pippin, Robert B. (2012). Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300172-06-5. 

Sumber primer

• The Searchers: Screenplay, by Frank S Nugent, Alan Le May, John Ford. Published by Warner Bros, 1956. Online Version

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