Frank McGrath

Senaryosunu Frank S. Nugent’ın Alan Le May’in 1954 yılında yazdığı aynı adlı romanından uyarlayıp yazdığı filmin yönetmeni John Ford’dur. Filmde ırkçı bir savaş gazisinin kızılderililerin kaçırdığı yeğenini aramak için yollara düşmesi, yıllar süren bu arayış sırasında onu harekete geçiren amacın gittikçe daha tartışmalı bir hale gelişi konu ediliyor. Film çevrildiği yıl ses getirmediyse de, yıllar geçtikçe prestij kazanarak klasikleşmiştir. Kimilerine göre ise John Ford’un başyapıtıdır. 'The Searchers', Amerika’da 'kültürel, tarihi ve estetik olarak önemli' filmler arasına seçilmiş ve Kongre Kütüphanesi’nin 'Ulusal Film Arşivi'nde korunmasına karar verilmiştir.

Tom Jeffords farklı bir Amerikan askeridir. O beyazlarla apaçiler arasındaki savaşın bitmesini, iki kültürün kendi topraklarında özgürce yaşamasını istemektedir. Bu düşünceyle bir apaçi gencinin hayatını kurtarır ve apaçilerin adalet duygusunu keşfedince, barışın ilk adamını atmaları için kızılderilileri motive eder. Bu esnada apaçi kültürünü daha iyi tanır ve hatta kalbini bir yerliye kaptırır.

Kızılderililer bütün batıya yayılmak üzeredirler. Birkaç gün içerisinde emekliye ayrılacak olan Komutan Brittles, müdürünün kızını bir komşu kasabaya götürmekle görevlendirilmiştir. Kaptan Brittles kasabaya ulaştığında buranın yakılıp yıkılmış ve kasabada yaşamakta olan insanların da ölmüş olduğunu görecektir... Film, Amerikan süvarileri ile kızılderililer arasında yaşanan savaşı konu alıyor.

Western sinemasının babası sayılan John Ford'dan bir başyapıt. Meksika sınırında bir kaleye tayini çıkan idealist teğmen Owen Thursday, istemeden de olsa yerlilerin şefini öldürmek zorunda kalıyor. Amerikan askerleri ve yerliler arasındaki gerilimin bir anda artmasıyla her iki taraf da savaş hazırlığına başlıyorlar. Bu arada kale içineki askerlerin eşleri ve çocukları da endişe içinde bekliyorlar.

Filmde olaylar, Nevada’daki çiftliklerden birinde işlenen cinayetle başlar. Cinayetten sonra maktulün arkadaşları intikam için katilin peşine düşerler ve üç kişiyi yakalayıp, onları hemen öldürmek isterler...

Frank Pierce altın madenlerine sahip olan güçlü bir işadamıdır. Taw Jackson hapisteyken altın madeni bulunan arazisini de ele geçirir. Frank Pierce, altınları nakletmek için zırhlı bir araç yaptırmıştır. Bu savaş vagonu hem kalın zırhtan oluşmuş hem de içinde ağır silahlar vardır. Pierce, 30 adamıyla bu savaş vagonunu koruyarak altınları nakletmeyi planlamaktadır. Bu dönemde şartlı tahliye edilen Taw Jackson, arazisini ve arazisinden çıkan altınları almak için harekete geçer.

Eski bir korsan, kabadayı korsanlarla ve göründüğünden daha sert olan aristokrat bir kadınla olan aşk/nefret ilişkisiyle mücadele ediyor.

John Wayne zaman zaman süvarilere yardım eden bir kovboy olsa da geçmişinde Kızılderililerle beraber yaşadığı çok önemli anları vardır. Tesadüfen geçtiği bir yerde tanıştığı Geraldine Page’yi ve Page’nin tavırlarını oradan ayrıldıktan sonra unutamaz. Yanlız Page’nin bir sorunu vardır. Kızılderililer oğlunu alıp yetiştirmek isterler. Page bu durumdan nasıl kurtulacağının hesaplarını yaparken Wayne çıkar ve olaya el koyar.

Ödül avcısına dönüşen alaycı eski bir şerif, tavsiyesi, deneyimi ve silahıyla kısa süre önce atanan genç bir şerife yardım eder.

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.

After a demonstration of new PT boats, Navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.

Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.

İki haydut ve üvey kardeş olan Rio ve Esqueda, kendi bölgelerine gelen yeni yerleşimcileri bölgelerinden kovup kovmama arasında birbirlerine girmektedir

Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posing as vigilantes. This 1941 Fox production stars a young George Kennedy as Lassiter.

After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.

A bayou girl (Debbie Watson) and her kin (Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle) have run-ins with some rich folks.

Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is as a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a layperson into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.

A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

Tammy is an American sitcom, starring Debbie Watson in the title role. Produced by Universal City Studios, 26 color half-hour episodes were aired on ABC from September 17, 1965 to March 11, 1966. Tammy was loosely based on the three Tammy films; Tammy and the Bachelor starring Debbie Reynolds; Tammy Tell Me True; and Tammy and the Doctor both starring Sandra Dee. The films themselves were adaptations of novels by Cid Ricketts Sumner. The series was also partially influenced by other rural themed TV sitcoms such as The Beverly Hillbillies. In particular, there are similarities between Tammy's Cletus Tarleton and The Beverly Hillbillies' Jethro Bodine.