"The Searchers" has influenced many films. David Lean watched the film repeatedly while preparing for "Lawrence of Arabia" to help him get a sense of how to shoot a landscape. The entrance of Ethan Edwards in "The Searchers", across a vast prairie, is echoed in the across-the-desert entrance of Sherif Ali in "Lawrence of Arabia". Sam Peckinpah referenced the aftermath of the massacre and the funeral scene in "Major Dundee" (1965), and according to a 1974 review by Jay Cocks, Peckinpah's "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" contains dialogue with "direct tributes to such classics as John Huston's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and John Ford's "The Searchers"."