Script To Screen: “The Searchers”

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
2 min readJul 18, 2023

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From the 1956 movie The Searchers, screenplay by Frank S. Nugent, novel by Allan Le May.

Summary: As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Here is the scene that sets the plot into motion:

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