TCM GREATEST CLASSIC FILMS COLLECTION: JOHN WAYNE WESTERNS (THE COWBOYS / FORT APACHE / RIO BRAVO / THE SEARCHERS)

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• Genre: Western
• Plot: THE SEARCHERS; John Wayne plays an ex-Confedate soldier seeking a niece captured by Comanchees who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or lonliness. And in his five-year search, he finds the unexpected: his own humanity. This 12th John Wayne/John Ford collaboration resulted in a universally acclaimed cinema landmark.; ; FORT APACHE; The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander, but to a man, they're duty bound to obey – even when it means almost certain disaster. John Wayne, Henry Fonda and other familiar players from director John Ford's 'stock company' saddle up for the first film in the director's famed cavalry trilogy.; ; RIO BRAVO; On one side is an army of gunman dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is a sheriff (John Wayne), two deputies (Dean Martin and Walter Brennan), an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth (Ricky Nelson) and a woman with a past (Angie Dickinson). Howard Hawks directs one of the genre's greatest and most influential works.; ; THE COWBOYS; John Wayne had one of his richest late-career roles as a leather-tough rancher who, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 greenhorn schoolboys for a cattle drive across a 400 treacherous miles. Roscoe Lee Brown, Colleen Dewhurst and Bruce Dern costar.
• Runtime: 8:43
• Media Format: Movie