The searchers

Resource Information

The work The searchers represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The searchers

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures presents the C.V. Whitney picture ; screenplay by Frank S. Nugent ; executive producer, Merian C. Cooper ; directed by John Ford

Contributor

• Ford, John, 1894-1973
• Gangelin, Victor
• Carey, Harry, Jr., 1921-2012
• Hoch, Winton C.
• Brandon, Henry, 1912-1990
• Hotaling, Frank
• Bond, Ward, 1903-1960
• Hunter, Jeffrey, 1926-1969
• Jones, Stan, 1914-1963
• Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022
• Jordan, Dorothy, 1906-1988
• Le May, Alan, 1899-1964
• Miles, Vera
• Moreno, Antonio, 1887-1967
• Beetson, Frank
• Basevi, James
• Murray, Jack
• Archuletta, Beulah, 1912-1969
• Nugent, Frank S.
• Peck, Ann, 1903-1972
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Qualen, John, 1899-1987
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
• Scott, Pippa, 1935-
• Steiner, Max, 1888-1971
• C.V. Whitney Pictures
• Wayne, John, 1907-1979
• Wayne, Patrick, 1939-
• Wood, Lana, 1946-
• Wood, Natalie
• Worden, Hank, 1901-1992
• Cooper, Merian C.
• Curtis, Ken, 1916-1991
• Carey, Olive
• Coy, Walter

Actor

• Coy, Walter
• Wayne, Patrick, 1939-
• Wayne, John, 1907-1979
• Scott, Pippa, 1935-
• Qualen, John, 1899-1987
• Archuletta, Beulah, 1912-1969
• Moreno, Antonio, 1887-1967
• Miles, Vera
• Jordan, Dorothy, 1906-1988
• Hunter, Jeffrey, 1926-1969
• Bond, Ward, 1903-1960
• Brandon, Henry, 1912-1990
• Carey, Harry, Jr., 1921-2012
• Carey, Olive
• Curtis, Ken, 1916-1991
• Worden, Hank, 1901-1992
• Wood, Natalie
• Wood, Lana, 1946-

Art director

• Hotaling, Frank
• Basevi, James

Commentator

• Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022

Costume designer

• Beetson, Frank
• Peck, Ann, 1903-1972

Director of photography

• Hoch, Winton C.

Film director

• Ford, John, 1894-1973

Film distributor

• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Film editor

• Murray, Jack

Film producer

• Cooper, Merian C.

Production company

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
• C.V. Whitney Pictures

Screenwriter

• Nugent, Frank S.

Subject

• Feature films
• Western films
• Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Fiction films

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Western films

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness

Cataloging source

ZPJ

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Photographed by Winton C. Hoch ; music by Max Steiner ; the song "The Searchers" by Stan Jones ; art directors, Frank Hotaling and James Basevi ; film editor, Jack Murray ; men's wardrobe, Frank Beetson ; women's wardrobe, Ann Peck ; set decorator, Victor Gangelin

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

In English or French, with English, French, or Spanish subtitles

LC call number

PN1995.9.W4

LC item number

S43 2007

PerformerNote

John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, John Qualen, Olive Carey, Henry Brandon, Ken Curtis, Harry Carey, Jr., Antonio Moreno, Hank Worden, Beulah Archuletta, Walter Coy, Dorothy Jordan, Pippa Scott, Pat Wayne, Lana Wood

Runtime

119

Series statement

John Wayne the epic collection

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Target audience

general

Technique

live action