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| | Cinemarati Blog » Summer Viewing #1: The Searchers |
 | | Granted, Red River and The Searchers are hardly the same film, but after seeing Red River, even Ford, who directed Wayne at least nine times, is reported to have exclaimed, “Dammit, I never knew the son of a bitch could act!” |
 | | I’m stealing that tidbit from Edward Buscombe’s BFI Film Classics book on The Searchers, which also reports that, in adjusted dollars, the film is still the 17th highest-grossing Western on the books. |
 | | Since Bogie began his career as a villain, and played deeply flawed characters throughout his career, particularly in all those films noir and gangster films in the 30s and 40s, audiences were primed to work with him as a shady figure. |
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