Laurie Jorgensen and the Quest (The Searchers Video Essay)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- SPOILERS. A video essay on Laurie Jorgensen and her role in the The Searchers, Directed by John Ford. Essay and editing by Nathan Reynolds.
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Great video of a great movie with a incredible cast of Actress and Actors. Ken Curtis was a great singer and a great person.
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Or find another hobby...
That scene is heartbreaking, I love this film and it will always have a special place in my heart.
This is the signature American film, not just Western.
This film and the man who shot liberty valance I saw as a boy growing up in a little frontier town on the Canadian divide. Both films just exploded in my mind as there were real men like men in both films living in my valley. Ford made prowar propaganda films during the war and after, he made a these films about the real men who “walk the watch” men who aren’t afraid or bound by the law but believed in it and backed up those that had to enforce it. Tom Donifin Ethan edwards are kind of one in the same both could have been outlaws if they wanted, there wasnt anyone who could have stood in their way.. but they believed in “the American way” right or wrong or as flawed as it was… and Ford showed those flaws in both which was rare for the time. Wayne’s portrayal of both is just epic and as good of a job of acting as you’ll ever see and truly stands the test of time.
Saw this movie, in a log community building, while a kid homesteading with family, in Alaska, about 1958 or 59. We weren't to far removed from frontier Texas, as Alaska was known as the Last Frontier. I was about 7-8 yo at the time. I identified with Debbie. That scene of discovery in the cemetery(( Debbie& Scar), scared me so bad I had nightmares for years. We lived back in the bush, so the dark woods, snowy muskegs, wolves howling, all held terrors to a little girl. The men& women in our area were brave, no nonsense folks too. I understand what you mean.
0:33 A most iconic still of a young, beautiful, pioneer woman. I always freeze at this spot when I watch this film. I just love it. It makes my heart ache.
Great commentary. Maybe do the Ford Cav trilogy (Ft Apache, Yellow Ribbon and Rio Bravo) pls. Such classic timeless art and history. Thank you and God bless all the works of your hands!!
she's my fave character in the film, her and her mad Swedish dad
Great video. That is one of the best films ever.
Vera Miles was just so so cute.
It was so disturbing 10-15 years later to see her playing John Wayne's wife with an adult daughter in "Hellfighters".
@@@Hiraghm, I don't understand.
@@Hiraghm why? are you grinding the no roles for older women knife? IMO there is NO actress more attractive in mature roles than Vera,
@@kaialoha No he thinks the Duke was too old for her,and the Duke was her third part of the triangle with James Stewart in the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,must of thought she was too cute an young for him,but what would he have thought of her in that movie,in the 60's as well.
That's MISS KANSAS 1948 . THE ONE and ONLY.
The lovely Vera Miles
This was a great movie John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Patrick Wayne Natalie Wood and many more 👌 and John Ford 👍 one of my favorites ❤ 😀 👍
Ethan has a PhD in PTSD. Wouldn't you be a bitter roamer if you had fought for the Confederacy? All that killing and dying was for naught and then you are expected to just amble back to your Texas roots and act like nothing ever happened. Your team lost and actually surrendered. That is bound to make you bitter and antisocial.
Thanks! That was excellent.
good gravy you really enjoyed twisting Laurie's reaction to the fist-fighting scene. Has modern society degenerated so much as to have forgotten the natural roles of men and women? Of _course_ a pre-feminist-revolution woman is going to be fascinated by the fight; not because she herself would enjoy fighting, but because they were fighting over _her_ . That's where her power comes from.
Nice talk about the best film about the West ever made. Laurie is a wonderful character, beautifully played by Vera Miles, would have liked to see the letter reading scene, one of the funniest and most touching things I’ve ever seen in a movie. Capped off by Ma Jorgensen saying to Charlie ‘you’re staying for dinner and I won’t take no for an answer’ to which Charlie drawls ‘the thought of saying no never entered my head Mrs Jorgensen’. Ford made tough movies with tender scenes of humor and social comedy to balance them. Actually, about the best film period.
Masterpiece
Thank you so much, this helped me A LOT in the exam!!
Kirsty Simpson Glad to help.
Extremely sentimental,David from England!!
The film shows Ethan as ambivalent - he hates the Comanches but knows all about them and tolerates the wife of his nephew. Each time I see the end and I know he's going to kill Natalie Wood, and believe he will, until he picks her up instead. Very moving film and I sense an undercurrent of empathy for the native Americans despite the realistic portrayal of the gritty life the settlers had.
Never forget that this, like many of the Ford/Wayne westerns, is a James Warner Bellah story.
"The Searchers' book that the movie was derived from was written by Alan LeMay. I read it recently- it's very well written. It's authentic to detail, historical information about native tribes, and a very good read- there are many aspects that are different, most notably to me was relationship between Martin and Laurie. I recommend it!
She was actually my favourite in this film
All the actors were so good,David from England
The best John Wayne movies are when he is playing a abrasive man or his character is killed.
vera miles is the best pouter in films, it hits home because girls do pout and make you feel guilty
Vera was great just as sure as the turning of the Earth
I can't show applause in text. Hitchcock was so right about Vera Miles. And she's better than Grace Kelly.
I agree with Hitch that Vera might have been better in Vertigo. Better actress no offence to Kim who I adore. Grace is quite overrated in the same way as Liz imo...only required to be beautiful which is maybe why we don´t really see them deeply. Just saying.
And don’t forget Hank Worden.
Estou tentando descobrir o nome de uma série antiga onde mulher vive em uma carroça grávida apois perde o marido
i wish my love was like this I would have marry her
Directed by John Ford, not John Wayne.
john wayne was great in his role and he should get the Oscar for his fine acting for the year 1956
GOSH IT IS LIKE MY MOM WHO LEFT CHINA TO GO TO 5000 MILES AWAY
We sit here and talk about masculine quests? A couple decades of criticism will not wash away tens of thousands of years of sex roles. It’s funny that some think it will.
Don’t think that she passively waits. He is waiting too. They both have responsibility. His to bring Debbie home. Hers to provide them a home after the horror ends. Both are equally important.
How could anyone have a ranch in a sand box like that? They couldn't and this isn't Texas.
Ronnie Bishop It IS fiction after all.
Why couldn't Ford drop that "Texas 1868" card. It adds nothing to the film.
Rose Zingleman It’s based on the kidnapping of Cynthia Parker. Which was very much real.
I agree with ye on that,but it is a movie,but Texas is a whole lot greener humid than some folks are lead to believe by Hollywood,drier heat in the South Texas,Llano Estacado a wee bit dustier but no great monuments like in this,still loved the flick.
james mcallister I liked the movie but every time I see those sand dunes it’s so unrealistic it loses me. Not a blade of grass. lol
They sure don't capture Vera Miles beauty in any of these shots, if you look at the behind the scenes shots you'll see what I'm talking about.
I did notice (quite by happenstance, mind you) when she gives Sweetface to Martin, she's wearing some great fitting Levis. Invented in 1853 in California, it's hard to imagine they would make their way into Texas by then, but I am glad, however, to see them on her.
@@ktkt1825 Well of course they shot in Utah so maybe they had jeans there by then in those sand dunes lol. You know Ford could have shot in both places, he could have had a second film crew shoot shots of west Texas and shoot the long shots of Monument valley to make the picture even better.
@@ronniebishop2496 I can think of no better promotion for the jeans than how her figure featured those back pockets!
classic love
Funny attack John Wayne saying why you started it
Supposedly, Wayne's line in the film, "That'll be the day" inspired Buddy Holly's song of that name.
This is a lot like the Cynthia Parker kidnapping.
Very much so,I think it was even based on that,we all know who Quanna Parker was,even in Scotland lol.
james mcallister My first wife’s family owned the 6666 sixes ranch in Texas the subject of the tv Series Yellowstone, and Burke Burnett her uncle leased land from Quannah back in the day.
james mcallister It’s true James, .
@@ronniebishop2496 got a lot of friends in Texas,spent a lot of time there,around the Dennison and Sherman area,loved it,learned a lot about your history,and my best friends mother told me the story of the Parker girl,I even went to the Cowboy Hall Of Fame in OK City,spent 4 maybe 5 years in the US altogether and half of that was in Texas,need to go back an see old Parnell soon some day.San Antonio beautiful,I loved it down in the big Bend country as well,an the Palo Duro,I kept looking for the Commanche or the Kiowa,in El Paso brought my favorite song to mind,an Del Rio well it stradles both nations or the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande,any way I loved this movie.
james mcallister I was born and raised in Rush Springs Oklahoma, on a ranch just west of the Chisholm Trail and just east of the 98th meridian where the west begins. My grandmothers family came from Scotland, and the Keith Clan. The 6666 ranch’s headquarters is at Guthrie Texas. They raise horses and hit oil years ago just lucky people.
She screams when she talks
A fantastic comedy for all the family and friends
This is how academia ruins a good story and a meaningful redemption from bigitry.
Written by a person who does not know that she is a "bigit."
Tell me you've never read above a 6th grade level without telling me you've never read above a 6th grade level
Speak up!
Why is the narrator mumbling? It's too much effort to try to make out what he's trying to say. Speak up!
the reason it's hard to classify is because it's a bit of a mess-----great cinematography and fine performance by Wayne but plot had holes as wide as the landscape and some of the supporting actors were goofy. Really, Ford made 10 movies better than the Searchers
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Can you speak up please... And spit out your slime... It's audible
Vera miles ... you're a nut job if you can't see how beautiful she is.
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