VIEWING CUE: The Searchers

In John Ford’s The Searchers (1956), Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) searches for years for his niece, who was kidnapped as a child by Comanche. In this scene, he and his nephew Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter) finally find Debbie (Natalie Wood), but she sends them away, fearful of the response of Chief Scar (Henry Brandon).

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