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Once Upon a Time in the West
Why this pick
Leone shares Ford’s monumental use of landscape and frontier myth, but turns the West into a slow-burning arena of vengeance, memory, and looming violence.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1956 1h 59m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
The Searchers
AdventureWestern
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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The Proposition
Why this pick
A severe frontier odyssey with stark landscapes, family loyalty, and brutal ethical choices; it carries the same sense that violence stains every attempt at homecoming.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Why this pick
Like The Searchers, it confronts the ugliness beneath frontier righteousness, using a taut journey toward judgment to test what supposedly decent men will do.
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The Shooting
Why this pick
This spare, uncanny trek through the desert preserves the obsessive forward motion and hostile emptiness of The Searchers, with a more elliptical, unsettling mood.
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The Wild Bunch
Why this pick
Peckinpah’s aging outlaws and ravaged borderlands extend The Searchers’ interest in men made obsolete by a changing West, with operatic violence and bruised loyalty.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1868, Ethan Edwards returns after an eight-year absence to the home of his brother Aaron in the wilderness of West Texas to rescue his niece from the Comanches.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
John Wayne
Ethan Edwards
Natalie Wood
Debbie Edwards (older)
Patrick Wayne
Lt. Greenhill
Jeffrey Hunter
Martin Pawley
Vera Miles
Laurie Jorgensen
Ward Bond
Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton
John Qualen
Lars Jorgensen
Olive Carey
Mrs. Jorgensen