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Originally Posted by JustRalph
Wayne should of got an Oscar.
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The entire movie was ignored by the Oscars. I think that's at least partly due to the fact that it came out the same year that Wayne played Genghis Kahn.
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
The scene where he tells the brother he’s going to kill her………..incredible.
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Martin Pawley (the Jeffrey Hunter character) was not Ethan Edwards' brother (Ethan is the John Wayne Character). Martin was an adoptive nephew.
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
Btw, Jeffrey Hunter was the original Capt. Pike in Star Trek.
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He also played Jesus Christ in the re-make of
King of Kings.
To me it's obvious that Ethan has feelings for Debbie's mother Martha. When Ethan left to go fight in the civil war he does not return for eight years. Debbie is eight years old when she's kidnapped. Speculation is that Ethan is not Debbie's uncle. He's her father.
Two girls are kidnapped. The older one, Lucy, is killed by the native Americans. Watch the Daniel Day-Lewis movie
Last of the Mohicans (or read James Fenimore Cooper's book). The two stories are similar. In Cooper's book two girls are kidnapped and one of them commits suicide. In turn Cooper's book is based on a historical event where two girls were kidnapped by Iroquois and one of them was killed.
By the way, there's a scene in
Star Wars where Luke Skywalker finds that his aunt and uncle have been killed by storm troopers. George Lucas had admitted that he ripped this scene directly from
The Searchers.
