A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in polychrome digital optical mixed video file DVD video
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Special features: featurette, "The searchers: an appreciation" ; "A turning of the earth: John Ford, John Wayne and The searchers (1998 documentary narrated by John Milius) ; introduction by John Wayne's son Patrick Wayne ; commentary by director John Ford biographer Peter Bogdanovich ; "Behind the cameras" segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV series ; theatrical trailer John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood In English or French, wtih English, French, or Spanish subtitles Closed-captioned