John Wayne stars in John Ford’s The Searchers, which is able to obtain a 4K Extremely HD launch subsequent month from Warner Archive.
The Searchers is taken into account to be one of many best Westerns of all time, and the enduring film starring John Wayne as Ethan Edwards is about to obtain a serious improve. Warner Archive has meticulously restored and remastered The Searchers from its authentic VistaVision digicam destructive and can launch the movie on 4K Extremely HD on December seventeenth. At all times grateful for an additional VistaVision switch on 4K.
Directed by John Ford, the 1956 movie stars Wayne as “an ex-Confederate soldier searching for his niece (Natalie Wood), captured by the Comanches who massacred his family. He won’t surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his five-year search, he encounters something unexpected: his own humanity.”
The Searchers underwent an intensive restoration earlier this yr and premiered on the fifteenth annual TCM Movie Pageant. The film was “filmed using the 8-perf 35mm VistaVision process, where the negative went through the camera horizontally with double the frame size of traditional 35mm film, thus yielding incredible clarity with great depth of field. The original negative along with yellow separation protection masters were used for this new presentation, to fully restore the film’s original color palette capturing the masterful cinematography of Winton C. Hoch, a frequent Ford collaborator.” The brand new 4K presentation might be accessible with Dolby Imaginative and prescient and HDR10, with each the 4K and Blu-ray discs that includes the “authentic monaural audio monitor which was restored from the most effective accessible supply supplies to offer a clear and dynamic audio presentation.“
Particular Options included on the 4K UHD disc and the Blu-ray disc:
- Archival Commentary by Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Final Image Present, What’s Up, Doc?) on each the 4K and Blu-ray discs.
On the Blu-ray disc:
- Unique Theatrical trailer (HD)
- The Searchers: An Appreciation (HD)
- A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and The Searchers (HD)
- Newsreel protection of the movie’s world premiere (HD)
- Outtakes (HD)
- Behind the Cameras (segments from the 1956 Warner Bros. Presents TV collection): (HD)
- Meet Jeffrey Hunter
- Monument Valley
- Meet Natalie Wooden
- Setting Up Manufacturing
The Searchers 4K Extremely HD/Blu-ray combo will run you $29.99, whereas the Blu-ray will go for $21.99.
