The greatest Western ever made had secrets even John Wayne couldn't hide.
Documentary on the making of "The Searchers" (1956), starring John Wayne and directed by John Ford, with outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with many of the surviving cast and crew.
Production
Rare outtakes from Ford's famously brutal shoot.
Direction
Nick Redman's surgical dissection of a masterpiece.
Director
Nick Redman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patrick Wayne narrates while his father refused to discuss the film on record, making this a son's unauthorized eulogy.
This short helped spark the 1990s revisionist wave that finally treated Ford's racism and cruelty as features, not footnotes.
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