Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: MOVIES The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel (Bloomsbury) A modest hit in theaters in 1956, “The Searchers” has grown ...

John Wayne’s 1956 Western “The Searchers” will debut a new restoration as part of the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival in April. This marks the second Wayne film to receive a premiere of a restored ...

The Searchers, John Ford’s epic 1956 Western, is a film geek’s paradise: It is preposterous in its plotting, spasmodic in its pacing, unfunny in its hijinks, bipolar in its politics, alternately ...

The Searchers 4K is a wonderful release that is everything you could want for a classic movie being reissued. The John Wayne classic has never looked better for the film, which is still incredibly ...

My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not to serve in World War II but more particularly because he thought ...

The bigger the fight between a screenwriter and a director, the better the picture. It’s an arrant generalization but not necessarily an errant one. Look at Budd Schulberg’s battles with “On the ...

Cynthia Ann Parker or, as she came to be known, Na’ura, was born in Illinois’s Crawford County sometime around 1827. Her father, Silas M. Parker, along with brother James, traveled west with their ...

In interviews he did with Stephen Colbert and others earlier this week, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan cited The Searchers, a 1956 film that starred John Wayne and was directed by John Ford, as ...

Due to his popularity as the genre's leading star, many may wonder what John Wayne's all-time favorite Western actually was.

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...