George Lucas restaged The Searchers' burned homestead in Star Wars, where Luke finds the Lars farm destroyed and his aunt and uncle dead.
Film· 1956· Western
The Searchers
by John Ford
The Searchers: 2 recorded works trace back to it.
What The Searchers influenced
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Vince Gilligan said the ending of Breaking Bad's finale came from The Searchers: as Ethan Edwards rides at Debbie and sweeps her up instead of shooting her, Walt saves Jesse rather than killing him. 'In the writers' room we said, hey, what about the Searchers ending?'