John played obsessed Indian hunter Ethan Edwards in this acclaimed 1956 film
[DOC] [TLE] The Films  Bigfork Film Festival [PAR] The Searchers (1956): Unrated ... John Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a former 
Confederate soldier who returns to his ... antiheroes; by the film's conclusion, his 
single-minded obsession seems less like heroism and more like madness.