Video: 'The Searchers' trailer

(Wednesday, May 16, 1956, 8:30 p.m. CDT) — The Searchers, a Western film about a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece, premiered tonight at the Chicago Theatre on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago.

Video: 'The Searchers (1956) - Movie' (10 clips)

Directed by John Ford, the film starred John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond and Natalie Wood.