THE SEARCHERS
TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET
This 1956 John Ford film is one of the best offerings of today’s all-day TCM John Wayne salute – and certainly the darkest. Wayne stars as a Civil War veteran, and a bigot who hates Native Americans, leading the search for the tribe that killed his family brutally and captured his niece, played by Natalie Wood. Jeffrey Hunter co-stars.