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# Tim Russert
- URL: https://tombeaverbooks.ghost.io/tim-russert/
- Published: 2026-10-06T01:10:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T02:58:11.000Z
- Author: Tom Beaver
- Tags: Book: Movies And TV, #Import 2026-10-09 17:51

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STORYCONTEXT: **The Searchers** (John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Dir. John Ford, 1956) 

Watched *The Searchers* on VCR with Laura C.. John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter. Second time to see it. Not nearly up to *Stagecoach*. Opens and closes with Ethan (Wayne) viewed through dark adobe-house doorway, first as he returns from Civil War, later after he has ended his five-year search for the girl and rescued her. Ethan is resourceful, brave, self-sufficient and part outlaw; he is continually fighting for someone else, has no home of his own, in the end does not enter the house when the others do: he is part of the desert prairie, not part of the domestic culture trying to take root. As the old Swede housewife says, “This is a bad land, but someday it’s gonna be a great land where people can live, and maybe our bones gotta be in the ground before that can happen.” The West is in transition, and people like Ethan are necessary to bring about the future, though their kind will be left in the past. Ethan is a good bad guy, or a bad good guy. *\~ April 14, 1990* (1)