Culture : Capability Brown Meets John Wayne at Compton Verney ; Vulture Considers the American West, Quilting and Mass Singing

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It would be difficult to imagine two landscapes less alike than the gentle green artifice of Capability Brown parkland and the lunar rockiness of Monument Valley.

However, the two will be brought together next Saturday (August 20) when John Ford's classic 1956 Western, The Searchers, is given an outdoor screening in the grounds of Compton Verney, the art museum near Kineton.

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Culture : Capability Brown Meets John Wayne at Compton Verney ; Vulture Considers the American West, Quilting and Mass Singing

Generally regarded as one of the greatest of Ford's films, The Searchers stars John Wayne as a rootless pioneer who spends years trying to find the Indians who killed his brother's family and abducted his neice. It has been cited as major influence on some of today...

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