# Why is "The Searchers" Such a Great Movie?

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**Created:** [December 31, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-searchers-such-a-great-movie/431830 "2007-12-31T19:19:12Z")\
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[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]  
_Hombre_ is the best Western.  
“How you going to get down that hill?” 🙂  
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If it’s great one-liners that make a Western, there’s always “Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.”

What’s the Searchers got? “That which we are about to receive, we thank thee, O Lord.”

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