The Searchers (1956) - The Raid Scene (2/10) | Movieclips

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Ethan (John Wayne) and Martin (Jeffrey Hunter) discover the horrific aftermath of a Native American raid on the Edwards family.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
John Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a former Confederate soldier who returns to his brother Aaron's frontier cabin three years after the end of the Civil War. Ethan still has his rebel uniform and weapons, a large stash of Yankee gold, and no explanations as to where he's been since Lee's surrender. A loner not comfortable in the bosom of his family, Ethan also harbors a bitter hatred of Indians (though he knows their lore and language well) and trusts no one but himself. Ethan and Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), Aaron's adopted son, join a makeshift band of Texas Rangers fending off an assault by renegade Comanches. Before they can run off the Indians, several homes are attacked, and Ethan returns to discover his brother and sister-in-law dead and their two daughters kidnapped. While they soon learn that one of the girls is dead, the other, Debbie, is still alive, and with obsessive determination, Ethan and Martin spend the next five years in a relentless search for Debbie -

CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1956)
Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, John Wayne, Lana Wood, Pippa Scott, Dorothy Jordan, Walter Coy, Hank Worden
Director: John Ford
Producers: Merian C. Cooper, Patrick Ford
Screenwriters: Frank S. Nugent, Alan Le May

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That chord at 2:19 always gives me the chills

lsmith
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One of the most scaring scenes in movies i have seen as a child ad as a adult. It is scaring also the scene when father is out to hunt and the terrific silence in the valley. I will never forget it.

nicolabuono
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No shooting, no blood, no fighting - yet one of the most blood-curdling moments in cinema history. In the fuller scene we know that the mother guesses what her husband's actions indicate, and the elder daughter takes a few moments to realize what the sudden, silent urgency of her parents means. A director who respected his viewing audience. The film was very loosely based on the Alan Le May novel, which itself used the 1836 abduction of Cynthia Ann Parker by Comanches as a central plot element. .

Baskerville
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What an amazing movie this was a true testament of its time they don’t make westerns like this no more I love the dynamic of John Wayne as a character along with Marty.

vishansilva
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The raw, emotional look of fear, accompanied by the scream and crying - Very believable scene by the young actress, and you felt her fear, and her sadness as well as the others. Incredible movie!

usaveteran-retired
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Anyone notice this ?

"A significant portion of the film's plot is revealed on a throwaway prop that most casual viewers rarely notice. Just before the Indian raid on the Edwards homestead, the tombstone (of Ethan's mother) that Debbie hides next to reveals the source of Ethan's glaring hatred for Comanches. The marker reads: "Here lies Mary Jane Edwards killed by Commanches May 12, 1852. A good wife and mother in her 41st year."

No wonder he has always hated them.

chrisM
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"The Searchers" is one of the very few films adaptions that is actually better than its source novel. However, the novel's depiction of the last moments of the Edwards' family is downright chilling: standing together dead-silent in the pitch dark of their house listening to signs indicating that a large war party has surrounded them and is not just there to steal their horses.

mkeogh
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Every one's talking about Lucy's blood-curdling scream, while I'm under the realization that Debbie wouldn't have been found & abducted if it wasn't for their dog Chris.

MKM_
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Probably one of the most terrifying scenes ever in any movie.

xzsebju
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So that's where George Lucas got the idea for the scene where the Imperial stormtroopers attacked Luke Skywalker's home in Tatooine in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).

Naminskia
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The most frightening scene in all filmdom. As Bakersville22 says below, "no shooting, no blood and no fighting." A master director of a scene whose performers are unknown.

JohnnylMr
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They knew they were finished. “Don’t ever come back, no matter what you hear.” So desperate they put their little girl outside.

A hundred years ago my Grandmother’s friend of 80 years was a young girl in Macedonia. The Turkish Army came to the village. Her parents took her to a drainage ditch and told her to stay until someone came for her. She saw the town lined up and shot.

This is all too real.

davidnikoloff
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The dust rising in the distance is the raiders coming. Never noticed that detail for awhile

thaddeust.thirdiii
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The dialogue and acting are absolutely heartbreaking

chickencharlie
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@1:11 no matter how many times I see this, I always get so anxious at that part. I find myself willing her to be quiet.

johnwheatley
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What a great moment in acting. Such abject terror as the realization of the situation became clear. I don't know if it could have been more believable even if it were actually happening.

frankensteinlives
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This could’ve been a horror movie. A western horror movie

SHAMSHAM
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I was a junior in college the first time I saw this movie. It was in a Film Studies class, and I was not prepared for that scream. Scared the crap out of me. A lot of brave settlers came to the same realization, unfortunately.

KingpinPadre
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0:05 when the realization comes that you have a week of summer left

charlietheanteater
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Notice the longing looks Ethan always gives to his brother’s wife, and how, even though this is his BROTHER’s house, HER name is the only name that he calls as he searches the debris. “Martha! Martha!”

The true theme of this movie is kept hidden in the subtext, for those to see it that will. Very few films make such a bold choice.

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