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Ford's Searchers Is a Racist Film

Todd VanDerWerff: The Western shows the origin of law by depicting a struggle between someone who's trying to institute law in a situation of lawlessness. He says Ford does that so well, but let's get to what is going on with stagecoach. "I think searchers maybe not that much improvement on stagecoach in terms of the question of racism," he says.

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