Like Scorsese, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist experienced a signature moment when a work of art touches so deeply, it stays with you forever. “I’m not even sure how old I was when I first saw The Searchers, but it was on TV, and it really affected me. I didn’t see it again until I was in college, and it had such a big impact; it’s such a powerful and unsettling movie. There’s so much going on, and I always kept coming back to it.”During his time as a visiting professor at Stanford University, Frankel decided “to write an American book.
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It was the 50th anniversary of the film, and nobody was paying much attention. I started looking into the background of the film and discovered it was loosely based on a true story.”The former Washington Post Sunday magazine editor admits to being unaware of the 1836 kidnapping of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker by the Comanche, and how that event inspired Alan Le May’s novel. “If you’re raised in Texas, you get Cynthia Ann Parker in your school curriculum, but if you’re raised in Rochester, New York? What you get is the chance to watch The Searchers.”The special edition DVD of the film, and its documentary A Turning of the Earth, spurred Frankel’s research: “Director John Milius talked about Parker, and I looked up some things, and suddenly that opened a whole new world for me.
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What began as a ‘making of the movie’ book quickly took on another, and deeper, level to explore.”Frankel became fascinated with the history of Cynthia, who lived with the Comanche for 24 years and was the mother of their chief, Quanah Parker, and how Le May transposed those events for his novel.Le May had substantial credits as a screenwriter before he turned his attention to the Parker story, having toiled for Cecil B. DeMille on a number of projects, including Reap the Wild Wind, costarring Wayne. “I really wanted to find out about Le May, because he’s the crucial link between the story and the film. He’s one of those classic Hollywood figures, who starts as a novelist, comes out to Hollywood to make money, gets frustrated and finds his way back to writing this novel. The book was very well received at its time, but it’s a grim, relentless story. Le May was a Western guy.
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He knew about horses, about weaponry. He knew history.”When The Searchers was published, Ford’s partner, Merian C. Cooper, bought the rights.
Ford had always been interested in the Parker story, and Cooper knew this would fit his sensibilities perfectly. Cooper is usually remembered today as the producer of King Kong, but he had a highly honored military career, as well as being a prolific producer, documentarian and the prime mover behind the Cinerama process. Actor Harry Carey Jr. Said, “Colonel Cooper was one man that Ford respected totally.”John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Danny Borzage—who played accordion on Ford’s film sets for four decades— and more of the cast and crew of The Searchers gather around director John Ford on set in Monument Valley.— By Allen C.