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The Searchers [Blu-ray]
The Searchers [Blu-ray]
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4.5 (280 reviews)
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5one of the best DUKE films on blu-ray
20%Tritus Onion
5Great Wayne
5Warrior Ethic
5Wow
30%A Blu-ray demo disk you /have/ to own.
51%A good excuse to get a blu-ray player
5Redemption
51%The Searchers: a movie that defined the American West to the world.
51%A Superb Blu-Ray!
5A Western with Thought-Provoking Themes and Ironies
5Great Movie, Excellent extras
4Ford and John Wayne do it again
51%The Searchers
51%Fantastic Movie - STUNNING HD
30%A Nice Transfer To BLU RAY Of A Tedious And Clichéd Movie...
51%RESTORED MASTERPIECE !!!
5The Searchers
30%A Search for a Lost Girl
5Blu- Ray review ..Magnificent transfer+++++++++++++
5Best of the westerns
51%HD Home Theater (HDMI) w/Blu-ray brings John Wayne's 1956 Widescreen Western Classic Home better than ever. (explained)
5The Duke On The Warpath
51%The Searchers
50%the searchers
51%Search No More
30%Mediocre
40%movie review
50%The Searchers
50%A Classic Western
40%Pleasantly Surprised
40%Old time favorite
51%Essential Cinema
20%Moving listings - general
51%Not Perfect But Still A Classic
51%John Wayne Little Celebrated, but Wonderful Film!!
41%The Searchers DVD version
51%Wayne and Ford
51%Ride away
21%Enjoyable Western! Great Background Scenery! Bad DVD Version!
50%The Taj Mahal of Westerns
50%The Searchers
5Excellent quality for film of it's age
5Perfect retouching for a classic!
51%Can I comment on the Amazon review?
21%Maybe the toughest film I've ever had to rate; an amazing movie saddled with an offensive script.
51%Pure greatness with a gorgeous picture
50%Scar Face
50%Fast shipping
51%Good Movie/Great Quality
50%the searchers/john wayne
51%First, they should have paid attention to the dog.
4Great Movie!
51%A classic western
51%Greatest Western Ever Made
50%Seek & Destroy
51%A True Classic
51%Best western ever made
50%Outstanding hi-def version of an outstanding film.
5WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
30%Doesn't hold up with international competition (also RACIST)
51%An ambiguous classic
51%Reference disc
50%One of the greatest
51%The Best
51%The Searchers
10%almost a waste of time
51%amazing HD pictures for a great western
51%Great Movie!
51%The Searchers
20%Wayne's acting is so wooden......
20%Low on my list *** spoilers ***
51%The Searchers
51%Best Western of all time? Fifty years old and good enough for another fifty years!
51%The Searchers
30%visually stunning Western epic.....
51%Jumps from 96th ranked on AFI list to 12th, thanks in part to great transfers like this HD dvd
51%Classic that goes WOW with HD treatment
51%Ford's Greatest Western; Wayne's Greatest Role
41%A Critical Second Look
51%John Fords greatest film
40%Great picture quality. Very good film.
50%Classic western. Great John Wayne lines.
51%Classic
51%Put this one on the stringer... it's a keeper!!!
10%Hokey!
51%It's easy to overlook it's faults
51%Spectacular - I Love This Movie!
31%"A rose by any other color smells"
51%John Wayne at his best
51%Quality DVD
51%Wayne's Focus, Tenacity, Grit and Vehemence makes this a must see movie.
51%Relevant Again
51%King Western
51%Excellent film, stunning HD DVD transfer
51%Great HD-DVD Picture. Great Movie.
51%Perhaps John Ford's Best Western
51%You can't beat this film!
51%Must-have HD DVD
4Great HD DVD transfer.
51%The Searchers Ultimate Collector's Edition
51% Best Western List
51%Searchers
51%Ultimate John Wayne movie
51%Better Than Citzen Kane
51%A disturbing meditation on racism, rancor and violence...
40%I Liked It...Just Not as Much as Everyone Else Does.
51%Masterfully restored and an HD-DVD centerpiece!
51%A great reproduction of a great movie with a great set of Extras
51%On the Edge of Perfection
41%HD DVD Tech Just Keeps Getting Better
21%Amazing movie, terrible "remastering"
51%Proof that John Wayne could act
51%STUNNING!!
51%All Time Classic
51%John Wayne's real talent in all it's primitive glory
51%Just enjoy it on its own terms; it is one of the masterpieces of cinema
51%Still A Great (Western) Movie!
50%Thoughts on The Searchers
51%Great film!
51%Definitive Ford-Wayne Classic Still Mesmerizes Despite Its Somewhat Dated Blemishes
51%John Wayne: Sexy, Edgy
51%Excellent new DVD
51%Keep on searching...
51%The Searchers THe Ultimate Edition
51%Strong performance by Wayne, great storytelling!
51%The DUKE and PAPPY at the top of their game! 5stars aren't enough!!!
41%Finally a DVD worthy of the movie
41%Great Release, but save your money
40%A certainly flawed endeavor, but a must see Western
51%ford and wayne team for the 12th time and make the best western and wayne gives the proformance of his life
50%See WJS Review
51%John Wayne and John Ford Score Big
41%Good western worth watching
41%Arguably the "Duke's" Best Movie
51%Wait for the Special Edition.
20%"So we'll find 'em in the end, I promise you. We'll find 'em. Just as sure as a turnin' of the earth."
51%This Ford Is No Edsel!
51%The 'Best Western'
51%Ford and Wayne's Crowning Achievement
51%Transcendent
40%A bleak and overrated western classic
51%"We'll find 'em. Just as sure as a turnin' of the earth."
51%Ford, Wayne, and Monument Valley Epic...
51%The best John Wayne western
41%Love vs. Hate, Hope vs. Despair
51%The Old West Without the Rose Tinted Glasses
51%Unquestionably John Wayne's Best Film
41%The work of a master
20%Tedious. Corny. Slow. Dated.
51%wow!
51%What Makes a Man to Wander?
20%Sort of Reminds Me of F-Troop
51%Rage and Racism on the Frontier
31%Just Average Transfer of A True John Ford Classic!
51%The quintessential Western
51%Ford and Wayne at the peak of their powers
5What More Can Be Said?
51%AN ICONIC MASTERPIECE
51%West's best
51%best John Wayne movie ever
51%Western Perfection...
51%Searchers!!
31%STILL SEARCHING FOR AN ADEQUATE TRANSFER
40%A Microcosm of the American Fabric Dissected by Huston
51%Wayne's Finest Performance, in Ford Masterpiece...
51%The second best western ever made
11%NOT widescreen!!!!
10%I gave up when..
51%Similarities to Captain Ahab and his pursuit of Moby Dick
31%A visual masterpiece
51%A Western for Everyone
50%A GREAT Western Classic For The Whole Family!
51%Add this to your COLLECTION!
51%An Odyssey-like western classic
51%A Great Western!
51%This is The Iliad of the western genre
30%The greatest Western ever, or the most overrated?
51%It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This.
51%A classic western
41%Great film, mediocre DVD
40%The Searchers
51%outstanding western
51%The Searchers, Slam-bang Western
41%Great photography, uneven story
51%One of the greatest films ever made!
51%For what we're about to receive, we thank Thee O Lord.
51%majestic
51%A must!
51%discrepant vision
51%Easily one of the great Westerns ever made
51%Ford and Wayne's best
51%John Fords' Best!
51%American Classic
41%A CLASSIC WESTERN...
51%What is Ethan Really Searching For and What Does he Find?
51%John Wayne at his Western Best now on WideScreen DVD!
41%somewhat forgotten legend
51%A Classic
41%A Good Ford Film, but NOT his best!!! SCORE: 78 (out of 100)
51%Action-packed movie for the "Duke"!
51%That'll be the day
50%One of the Greatest films of all time
41%A picture that moves you again and again.
41%A classic - but with reservations
51%Many levels of meaning
51%Career Defining!
50%A great western! John Wayne's finest
51%simply a great movie
51%What makes a man to wander?
51%Contrary to popular belief, John Wayne was a great actor
10%Searching for what all the fuss is about
41%What a team produced this movie !
51%Oedipus, Lear, and more.
51%Where's the Hook
30%I've never been a big Wayne fan, but...
50%greatest western of all time!
51%John Ford at his best!
20%John Ford, the Mediocrity
40%The long hard march
51%One of the ten best films of all time.
51%Greatest movie ever made!
41%Relentless Pursuit
41%The best film Wayne ever made...
51%one of the greatest Westerns ever made
51%Not Historical Fiction
10%The Searchers or The Oppressors? Stereotypes Natives
51%Something New with Each Viewing
41%Essential genre piece
30%Just Another Horse Opera
31%about the widescreen format preserving the aspect ratio�
51%packs a whallop
50%Masterpiece from Ford and Wayne
30%Definitely NOT as good many other Westerns
51%I would rank this movie in the top 5 of all I have seen!
51%Is there a Director's Cut?
51%The Best Movie Ever?
50%The greatest western ever filmed!
51%One of the Classic Westerns
51%The best of both Wayne and Ford
50%Still the best
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