The Searchers/YMMV


 * Adaptation Displacement: There was a novel?
 * Alas, Poor Scrappy: Look (Martin's homely Comanche trophy wife) is cringe-inducing in her Modern Minstrelsy....but you will feel bad when you see her corpse after she's massacred during a cavalry raid.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: " "
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: "So he married a Comanche squaw. Hawh! Hawh! Hawh!"
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The song The Searchers, by the Sons of the Pioneers (it starts at 0:19).
 * Darker and Edgier: Arguably this is Wayne's bleakest role: it's easy to forget Edwards is a bitter, angry racist and borderline sociopath.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: While the racism is meant to make the viewer uncomfortable, modern viewers are still going to be put off far more than the 1950s audience.
 * Mood Whiplash: There are several moments of broad comedy obviously shoved in to lighten the mood.
 * Moral Event Horizon:
 * Narm: Oh, Lord. Let us count the ways....
 * The atrocious way Lucy Edwards sets her jaw before screaming bloody murder when she realizes that Comanches are approaching the homestead (when a simple Oh Crap expression would have been much more effective).
 * The first time we see Henry Brandon as Scar. He is obviously wearing makeup.
 * The actor playing the Indian corpse early on picked a quite unfortunate moment to take a deep breath.
 * Special Effects Failure: A bunch, but most prominently, the "dead" Comanches who are clearly breathing.
 * Vindicated By History