Frankel notes that the year Cynthia Ann was taken, three of America’s four best-selling novels were by James Fenimore Cooper, with captivity figuring in all the fourth was the true story of a settler woman who, captured by the Seneca Indians, married into the tribe, had seven children and refused to rejoin white civilization. The underlying story is even older: dating back to the 17th century, memoirs of white women held captive by Indians are the original indigenous American narrative. “The Searchers” was adapted from a novel by Alan LeMay that was inspired by the case of Cynthia Ann Parker in 1836, she was abducted at age 9 by Comanches who slaughtered her family before her eyes. This, briefly, is the plot of what, in its return to the genre’s root issues, is the most radical western ever made. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957). Alan Brown Le May (J– April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer. Title: The Searchers Alan Lemay Subject: the searchers alan lemay Keywords: the searchers alan lemay Created Date.
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PDF File: The Searchers Alan Lemay Page: 1. He seeks not to rescue her but to murder her. He spends the next seven years in dogged pursuit, seeking revenge and the young niece taken captive, but when he realizes the child has come of age as an Indian woman, his objective shifts. A day or two later, they are massacred by Comanche raiders. Like a modernist drama, “The Searchers” opens on a void, in this case an empty stretch of Texas: an angry loner returns to his family after a long absence. In his vivid, revelatory account of John Ford’s 1956 masterpiece, Glenn Frankel, whose reporting from the Middle East for The Washington Post won him a Pulitzer Prize, writes that “The Searchers” may be “the greatest Hollywood film that few people have seen.” Perhaps that should be “have really seen.” Constantly televised, frequently revived, readily available on DVD, “The Searchers” has never been hard to find still, the subject this most troubling of movies addresses is an inducement to denial. There are a few Hollywood movies so thematically rich and so historically resonant they may be considered part of American literature.
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