The Comancheros
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
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- Cast:
- John Wayne , Stuart Whitman , Ina Balin , Nehemiah Persoff , Lee Marvin , Michael Ansara , Patrick Wayne
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Overrated and overhyped
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
THE COMANCHEROS is a solid John Wayne western, lively and entertaining from beginning to end and with barely a slow moment throughout. Wayne settles into the kind of laidback, laconic role that he would go on to play for the remainder of his career, and he's ably supported by Stuart Whitman who plays the fresh newcomer role. The plot has plenty of twists and turns and moves a fair distance from the outset, and veteran director Michael Curtiz (who by all accounts was directed from his deathbed) handles the action scenes well. Watch out for Lee Marvin, who gets very little screen time but who absolutely runs away with what he does have.
. . . throughout THE COMANCHEROS. As part of his Anti-Firearms Crusade, Wayne's Texas Ranger "Captain Jake" spends most of this flick riding around with 72 modern (by 1840s standards) rifles in the false bottom of his covered wagon. (Since guns provide bullies with a false Security Blanket, Jake feels false bottoms are a fitting place in which to shove your guns.) These 72 rifles suffer further outrages at the hands of Ranger Jake. At one point he buries all of them in a grave in the middle of nowhere that looks to be 10 feet deep. After their good long rust, Jake disinters these rifle bones and mutilates all of them by removing their firing pins. A shooting iron disfigured in this fashion is akin to a geezer after prostate removal: women have little to fear from the business end of either one. As THE COMANCHEROS closes, Jake sees that the 72 lethal weapons are put out of their misery through cremation. Obviously, the hard-drinking Jake is telling us that he's no more a fan of the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment Armory Musket Clause than he would be of The Prohibition Amendment, thinking its silly to have either one of these on our books.
(6.5/10) I have Mixed feelings about this movie. It had great cinematography but poor period detail. Movie had some great action scenes and humor between Duke and Mon-SEWER, but also wore on when the film got off track such as the brief scene with Wayne's love interest who surprisingly never surfaced again after a small scene developing Wayne's backstory. Lee Marvin had a great cameo but Stuart Whitman and Ina Balin didn't do much to impress me. Well made but nothing too memorable to take away after a viewing. Decent but unspectacular entry in John Wayne and Michael Curtiz's filmographies. Good editing and writing with another amazing Elmer Bernstein score.
The comancheros is pretty unique among westerns as it's plot contains elements of spy thriller. John wayne is brilliant as usual as Texas ranger Jack Cutter and Lee Marvin is excellent as Crow, one of his funniest performances yet. Stuart Whitman is also brilliant as convict Paul Regret. Other brilliant performances come from Nehemiah Persoff, Ina Balin, Bruce Cabot and Patrick Wayne.The theme tune gives you goose bimples all over and is another perfect score by Elmer Bernstein. The comancheros is a very fun and quite light hearted movie to watch and isn't really as dark as some other westerns. There are quite a few comedic scenes, one involving John Wayne and Lee Marvin, who are excellent together, absolutely drunk and singing the red wing song, which climaxes in the two having a drunken brawl in the saloon, this scene made me laugh until my sides hurt. Another scene being a small punch up in front of the bad guy at a dinner table were Jake and Paul fight off a few henchmen and Jake hitting a big henchman over the head repeatedly with a chair, very funny also.The storyline is perfect and like something you would see in an action movie and keeps you wanting to see more and more of the film as it progresses, it's very intriguing and near the end of the film the plot turns completely unexpected as Jake and Paul discover who the comancheros really are.To finish off, the action scenes are also excellent. They are mainly shootouts and battles which make brilliant use of long range rifles and pistols.One of John Waynes best movies, a must see for all western/John Wayne fans.