Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

The searchers / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; the C.V. Whitney picture ; screenplay by Frank S. Nugent ; directed by John Ford.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1997]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color, double sided ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic

4 3/4 in.

digital

widescreen

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Le May, Alan, 1899-1964 -- Film adaptations.

Indian captivities -- West (U.S.) -- Drama.

White people -- Relations with Indians -- Drama.

Soldiers -- Drama.

Comanche Indians -- Drama.

Racism -- Drama.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Western films.

Video recordings.

Other Author:

Ford, John, 1894-1973, film director.

Cooper, Merian C., film producer.

Nugent, Frank S., screenwriter.

Wayne, John, 1907-1979, actor.

Hunter, Jeffrey, 1926-1969, actor.

Miles, Vera, actor.

Bond, Ward, 1903-1960, actor.

Wood, Natalie, actor.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Le May, Alan, 1899-1964. Searchers.

Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), presenter.

C.V. Whitney Pictures, film production company.

Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.

Standard (full screen) format on side A; widescreen format on side B.

Based on the novel by Alan Le May.

Includes theatrical trailer; documentary shorts; production notes.

Executive producer, Merian C. Cooper ; associate producer, Patrick Ford ; photography, Winton C. Hoach ; editor, Jack Murray ; music, Max Steiner.

John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood.

DVD, region 1, double-sided, standard and widescreen versions; Dolby digital.

In English with optional soundtracks in French or Spanish; optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

National Film Registry selection, 1987.

Contents:

Includes interviews with Jeffrey Hunter and Natalie Wood, theatrical trailer, documentary shorts, interactive menus, production notes, scene access.

ISBN:

0790733064

9780790733067

9786311484364 : DVD

6311484366 : DVD

Publisher Number:

14651

Other Number:

39752868

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

949203

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