The Searchers (film)

The Searchers adalah sebuah film Barat Technicolor VistaVision Amerika 1956 yang disutradarai oleh John Ford, berdasarkan pada novel tahun 1954 karya Alan Le May, berlatar belakang Peperangan Texas–Indian, dan dibintangi oleh John Wayne sebagai seorang veteram Perang Saudara Amerika yang mencari kemenakannya yang diculik (Natalie Wood), ditemani keponakan angkatnya (Jeffrey Hunter). Kritikus Roger Ebert menyebut karkater Wayne, Ethan Edwards, "salah satu karakter paling cocok yang Ford dan Wayne pernah buat".[2]

The Searchers
Poster rilis layar lebar AS Bill Gold
SutradaraJohn Ford
ProduserCornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
SkenarioFrank S. Nugent
Berdasarkan
The Searchers
novel tahun 1954
oleh Alan Le May
PemeranJohn Wayne
Jeffrey Hunter
Vera Miles
Ward Bond
Natalie Wood
Penata musikMusik Asli:
Max Steiner
Lagu Pembuka:
Stan Jones
SinematograferWinton C. Hoch
PenyuntingJack Murray
Perusahaan
produksi
C.V. Whitney Pictures
DistributorWarner Bros.
Tanggal rilis
  • 13 Maret 1956 (1956-03-13)
Durasi119 menit
NegaraAmerika Serikat
BahasaInggris
Anggaran$3.75 juta[1]

Referensi sunting

  1. ^ Box Office Information for The Searchers. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  2. ^ Kesalahan pengutipan: Tag <ref> tidak sah; tidak ditemukan teks untuk ref bernama Review of The Searchers

Daftar pustaka sunting

  • Alvis, J. David, and John E. Alvis. "Heroic Virtue and the Limits of Democracy in John Ford's The Searchers." Perspectives on Political Science 38#2 (2009): 69–78.
  • Clauss, James J. "Descent into Hell: Mythic Paradigms in The Searchers." Journal of Popular Film and Television 27#3 (1999): 2–17.
  • Cohen, Hubert I. "Red River and The Searchers: Deception in the Modern Western." Film Criticism 35#1 (2010): 82–102 online
  • Day, Kirsten. "" What Makes a Man to Wander?": The Searchers as a Western Odyssey." Arethusa 41#1 (2008): 11–49. online
  • Eckstein, Arthur M. "Darkening Ethan: John Ford's 'The Searchers' (1956) from Novel to Screenplay to Screen." Cinema Journal (1998): 3–24. online
  • Eckstein, Arthur M., and Peter Lehman, eds. The searchers: essays and reflections on John Ford's classic western (Wayne State University Press, 2004)
  • Frankel, Glenn (2013). The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-105-5.  excerpt and text search
  • Freedman, Jonathan. "The Affect of the Market: Economic and Racial Exchange in The Searchers." American Literary History (2000): 585–599. in JSTOR
  • Pippin, Robert B. (2012). Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300172-06-5. 

Sumber primer sunting

  • The Searchers: Screenplay, by Frank S Nugent, Alan Le May, John Ford. Published by Warner Bros, 1956. Online Version

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