The Searchers (2013)
“By 1954 the Western had become Hollywood’s most reliably bankable genre—the one product C. V. Whitney Productions could offer that no savvy studio could turn down. Two years earlier, High Noon had grossed $18 million worldwide and won four Oscars, including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. The following year, Shane grossed $20 million in the United States alone. By one estimate, Westerns by the mid-1950s accounted for one-third of the output of the major studios and half the output of the smaller in...dependents. Besides Wayne, several name-brand movie stars had made or revived their careers by making Westerns, including Cooper, Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Robert Taylor, James Stewart, and Alan Ladd. The Western was starting to dominate the young medium of television as well, bringing forth a fresh crop of young actors such as James Garner, Steve McQueen, Richard Boone, Clint Eastwood, Robert Culp, and Michael Landon. Anytime someone in Hollywood moaned at the prospect of financing yet another Western, the rejoinder was simple economics: “No Western picture has ever lost money.”MoreLess
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