The Searchers [4K UHD + Blu-ray] from Warner Archive
Warner Archive delivers stunning 4k Restoration of "The Searchers".
Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into a landmark Western offering an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays an ex-Confederate soldier seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his five-year search, he encounters something unexpected: his own humanity.
Beautifully photographed by Winston C. Hoch, thrillingly scored by Max Steiner, and memorably acted by a superb ensemble including Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood and Ward Bond, The Searchers endures as "a great film of enormous scope and breathtaking physical beauty" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic). Named the "greatest American Western" by the American Film Institute in 2008, The Searchers was among the first 25 films deemed "culturally or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1989, when it was inducted in its National Film Registry.
Now meticulously restored from its original negative, this new presentation of The Searchers presents this masterpiece with unparalleled image quality, accompanied by an impressive array of special features.
This is Warner Archive’s first ever BD-100 disc!
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BONUS:
*Bonus features have been upscaled to HD From their previous SD versions for this set and are located on the Blu-ray disc.
Featurette: The Searchers: An Appreciation
1996 Documentary A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and The Searchers Archival introduction by John Wayne's son
The Searchers Feature Commentary by Director/John Ford Biographer Peter Bogdanovich; Vintage Behind the Cameras Segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV Series
Outtakes
Original Theatrical Trailer
(1 4K + 1 BD-50)