The Searchers

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A favorite film of some of the world's greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, THE SEARCHERS has earned its place in the legacy of great American films for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it's the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western – the hero (or antihero) who must stand alone according to the unwritten code of the West.

As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, THE SEARCHERS must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of "savage" Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty (the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture) is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue. Still, this is undeniably one of the greatest Westerns ever made.