A good old school western with solid acting, a great musical score, wonderful cinematography and beautiful desert scenery.
The Comancheros (1961)
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Reviews Counted:4
Fresh:4
Rotten:0
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Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: John Wayne is a Texas Ranger in this rollicking, good humored western, assigned to bring an arms-running gang to justice. After Wayne arrests one of the criminals, matters are complicated when they... John Wayne is a Texas Ranger in this rollicking, good humored western, assigned to bring an arms-running gang to justice. After Wayne arrests one of the criminals, matters are complicated when they wander into an area controlled by the Comancheros: a group of Anglos aiding the warring Comanche Indians. Based on the novel by Paul I. Wellman, THE COMANCHEROS was the last film for director Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA). [More]
Starring: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Lee Marvin, Ina Balin
Starring: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Lee Marvin, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Michael Ansara, Pat Wayne, Bruce Cabot, Joan O'Brien
Director: Michael Curtiz
Director: Michael Curtiz
Screenwriter: James Edward Grant, Clair Huffaker
Producer: George Sherman
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
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Reviews for The Comancheros
ThoughWayne is decent, this is a compromised Western due to the fact that ailing director Michael Curtiz (it's his last film) has no appreciation for the genre, and several sequences were shot by producer George Sherman, stunts coordinators and others
Lively and cheerful, but too banal to be a top-rate Curtiz or Wayne film; nevertheless it's a pleasingly entertaining film.
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