The dialogue-filled, set-bound picture lacks he action of a typical Western, with pretentious, cautionary, liberal-minded hemes and dark, artificially-painted and phony exteriors serving as backdrops.We always remove all the booze from the premises when we shut down.That reduces the insurance we normally have to carry.Jack: We don""t drink.Ullman: Well then, you""re in luck.BackgroundThe Searchers(1956) is considered by many to be a true American masterpiece of filmmaking, and the best, most influential, and perhaps most-admired film of director John Ford.Wearing the horizontally-striped uniform of a prisoner on a chain gang, he is assigned to hard labor in County Camp No.Earnest do-gooder George Bailey (James Stewart) recognizes his life as wonderful and ruly rich, even in its humdrum and bleak nature, only after suffering many hardships, mishaps and fateful trials (including compromised dreams of youth to leave the town and seek fame and fortune, other sacrifices, dismay, losses and the threat of financial ruin, and suicide).