The Comancheros
by Curtiz, Michael
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Actor: Don Brodie, Edgar Buchanan, Ina Balin, Michael Ansara, Phil ArnoldDirector: Curtiz, Michael
Brand: WAYNE,JOHN
Primary Contributor: Whitman, Stuart
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Comancheros
Movie Review: Duke's most under-rated film. Great chemistry between him and Stuart Whitman!
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Comancheros" is John Wayne's most under-rated film. It is an action-filled "Buddy Western" with an excellent plot and beautiful cinematography. The chemistry between Wayne and Stuart Whitman is very natural and funny. (Duke: "I'd hate to have to shoot you in the back if you run away." Whitman: "That would be a disappointment to me, also.") Whitman is very good in it, as a "Bon Vivant"-Gambler run afoul of the law in 1843 Louisiana and caught by a Texas Ranger, the Duke.
I used to stay up to watch this film on late-night t.v. as a kid in the seventies. It is quite grim in parts, especially for a Wayne film.
The score by Elmer Bernstein is also under-rated. His opening theme is as good as the theme to "The Big Country".
Summary of The Comancheros
John Wayne is Capt. Jake Cutter, a Texas Ranger determined to crush a powerful outlaw gang that's selling guns to the Indians. Cutter is also trying to bring in gambler Paul Regret (Whitman), who's wanted for murder. Both missions get entangled when CutNobody made a fuss about The Comancheros when it came out, yet it has proved to be among the most enduringly entertaining of John Wayne's later Westerns. The Duke, just beginning to crease and thicken toward Rooster Cogburn proportions, plays a veteran Texas Ranger named Jake Cutter. When we first see him (in a tongue-in-cheek delayed entrance), he's catching up with a New Orleans dandy (Stuart Whitman) who killed a judge's son in a duel just after that gentlemanly practice was banned. Monsieur Paul Regret--or "Mon-sooor," as Jake insists on calling him--is not a bad fellow, let alone a badman, and it only follows that, after the requisite number of misunderstandings, he and Jake will join forces to subdue rampaging Indians and the evil white men behind their uprising.
The Comancheros was the last credit for Michael Curtiz, who, ravaged by cancer, ceded much of the direction to Wayne (uncredited) and action specialist Cliff Lyons. With support from Wayne stalwarts James Edward Grant (coscreenplay) and William Clothier (camera), the first of many rousing Elmer Bernstein scores for a Wayne picture, and a big, flavorful cast including Lee Marvin (the once and future Liberty Valance), Nehemiah Persoff, Bruce Cabot, and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (in his last movie), they made a broad, cheerfully bloodthirsty adventure movie for red-meat-eating audiences of all ages. Even the liberal-pinko Time magazine had to second the salute from leading lady Ina Balin at film's end: "Take care of yourself, Big Jake ... we've sort of gotten used to you." --Richard T. Jameson
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