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Release date: March 13, 1956
A young Marxist critic of the movie magazine Cahiers du Cinema and director named Jean-Luc Godard: “ How can I hate John Wayne [] and yet love him tenderly [] in the last reel of The Searchers?” Source / More (Book)
Lana Wood played young Debbie Edwards and Natalie Wood, who was Lana’s older sister, played teenaged Debbie Edwards.
Buddy Holly stole That'll be the day from this movie::“Martin Pawley: I hope you die. Ethan Edwards: That'll be the day”
Legend has it that there are three films Steven Spielberg always watches before he launches into his next shoot: A Guy Named Joe, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Searchers.
The novel was written by Alan Le May. Source / More (Book)
The movie has been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry (U.S.A.)
John Wayne called Ford by the nickname Coach or Pappy
February 1, 1895
John Martin Feeney (He claimed his real Gaelic name was Sean Aloysius O'Feeney / Ó Fidhne, but research has shown his given name)
August 31, 1973
John's brother Francis took Ford as a stage name and entered pictures in 1907. In 1914 Feeney went to Hollywood, where he worked as stunt man, actor, and assistant director at the Universal Studios.
He changed his name and was assigned to work on shorts and westerns.
Ford shot to the top rank with The Iron Horse (1924), the story of the first transcontinental railroad, filmed on location.
The 1930s found Johns further developing a distinctive style cumulating in the high-budget movie The Informer (1935) which established Ford's critical reputation.
1939 was a great year for Ford. In a twelve month period, he achieved the astonishing task of directing Stagecoach , Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums along the Mohawk and The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
In the late 1940s Ford directed the Cavalry trilogy: Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950).
In 1973, Ford was the first person to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
