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The Searchers
1956
· Movie
· 119 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #552
- IMDb #591
- Google retired #472
- Rotten Tomatoes #845
- Metacritic #193
- Letterboxd #713
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1366
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #774
- Metacritic Critics #95
- Metacritic Audience #933
- Criticker #439
- Douban #866
- Kinopoisk #1904
- AlloCiné #688
- Trakt #1364
Every rating
65–94
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 65, highest is Metacritic critics on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Civil War veteran spends years relentlessly searching for his young niece, who was abducted by a Comanche tribe after a raid on her family's homestead. His quest is driven by a mix of familial love and a deep, racist hatred for the Comanche people, a conflict that threatens to consume his humanity as the search stretches on for years.
Details
- Director
- John Ford
- Writer
- Frank S. Nugent
- Released
- 16 May 1956
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Navajo, Spanish
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $3.8M
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Awards
4 wins & 4 nominations total
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