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Summary: A must for your Western Library
Review: One of John Wayne's better Action Western Classics. Acting is average with some laughable spots in this movie.
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Summary: great western
Review: one of the duke's best. release on dvd soon.
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Summary: Excellent Duke western
Review: The Comancheros is another great John Wayne western with a great supporting cast. The story follows Captain Jake Cutter, a Texas ranger, and his efforts to capture a prisoner, and then to infiltrate a group of gunrunners and bandits, the Comancheros. This group has been supplying the Comanches with repeating rifles who then wreak havoc on the area. There is plenty of action here with numerous shootouts, and also plenty of great characters. At parts during this movie, I wondered why the Duke never took more comedic roles since he is very funny in several scenes. John Wayne plays Captain Jake Cutter, the big, brawling Texas Ranger who attempts to bring in a prisoner who keeps escaping his grasp, "Monsoor" Paul Regret, played by Stuart Whitman very well. Another notable performance is Lee Marvin's Crow, the contact between Cutter and the Comancheros. He doesn't have a very big part, but what is there is very good. The film also stars Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Michael Ansara, Patrick Wayne, Bruce Cabot, and Joan O'Brien. Elmer Bernstein also turns in another excellent score that has elements of the Sons of Katie Elder and The Great Escape. The DVD offers a widescreen presentation which looks very good, two trailers(one in Spanish), and also Movie Tone News about an award presented involving the movie. More John Wayne movies should be put out like this, and I give credit to the companies putting out so many new ones recently. A very exciting, enjoyable Duke western that all his fans will love!
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Summary: Excellent Duke western
Review: The Comancheros is another great John Wayne western with a great supporting cast. The story follows Captain Jake Cutter, a Texas ranger, and his efforts to capture a prisoner, and then to infiltrate a group of gunrunners and bandits, the Comancheros. This group has been supplying the Comanches with repeating rifles who then wreak havoc on the area. There is plenty of action here with numerous shootouts, and also plenty of great characters. At parts during this movie, I wondered why the Duke never took more comedic roles since he is very funny in several scenes. John Wayne plays Captain Jake Cutter, the big, brawling Texas Ranger who attempts to bring in a prisoner who keeps escaping his grasp, "Monsoor" Paul Regret, played by Stuart Whitman very well. Another notable performance is Lee Marvin's Crow, the contact between Cutter and the Comancheros. He doesn't have a very big part, but what is there is very good. The film also stars Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Michael Ansara, Patrick Wayne, Bruce Cabot, and Joan O'Brien. Elmer Bernstein also turns in another excellent score that has elements of the Sons of Katie Elder and The Great Escape. The DVD offers a widescreen presentation which looks very good, two trailers(one in Spanish), and also Movie Tone News about an award presented involving the movie. More John Wayne movies should be put out like this, and I give credit to the companies putting out so many new ones recently. A very exciting, enjoyable Duke western that all his fans will love!
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Summary: A Real Entertaining John Wayne Western
Review: THE COMANCHEROS is one of John Wayne's most entertaining Westerns. It has a great cast, story, photography and one of Elmer Bernstein's best scores. The widescreen DVD looks incredible. John Wayne and Stuart Whitman play off each other brilliantly. Lee Marvin as Crow has a small but effective and outrageous character part. There's plenty of action and heroics to go around in this great outdoor adventure. I wish they would make movies like this today.
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Summary: Why no widescreen?
Review: This a great later Wayne movie with a rather Bond like approach - meglomaniac villain bent on world domination (well Texas anyway),one liners and great action. It is also one of the great sixties Cinemascope westerns, with spectacular Utah locations, so why is it being released in full frame only?
This is available on Laserdisc in widescreen, stereo and with a good commentary from the cast (Pat Wayne not John), is aired on UK BBC channels in widescreen and stereo, so is this the best Fox can do?
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Summary: Fun movie - Please release on DVD
Review: This is what movies used to be - no blood across the screen, just a couple of hours of fun and enjoyment - and a great soundtrack. Hopefully, it'll be released on DVD soon.
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Summary: Drunk Indians
Review: This movie was good for the most part but then again if you dont want to see drunk indians shoot white people then dont worry about seeing it. There were some good parts in this movie but the whole movie was a rather large dissapointment. These Indains would kill people so they could get their Jollies off byy getting alcohol. This movie was very unrealistic(...). I take my reviews very serioulsly. John Wayne was a good actor props to my man Wayne, he's my man.
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Summary: Not one of Duke's Best
Review: This was a reasonably entertaining movie but just not as classic as many of Wayne's Westerns. The plot was a little too simplistic, and, as with many Westerns made in the 50s and 60s, too little attention is paid to authenticity. One glaring example-- the firearms and ammunition used in the movie were not around until the 1860s, 20 years after the period the movie was set in.
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Summary: Action the old-fashioned way
Review: Though primarily a classic action-Western, this movie succeeds on several other levels as well. Wayne plays veteran Ranger Jake Cutter, who boards a Gulf steamer to arrest New Orleans gambler Paul Regret (Whitman), planning to extradite him for the so-called "murder" (in a formal duel) of the son of a judge (Texas being at this point still a Republic and eager to co-operate with the older States in the hope of soon being admitted to their august company). Whitman (whose role in this film was my first introduction to him, and whom I've liked ever since) is really a character a little outside his depth: he apparently didn't even know the status of the man he killed until the referee told him, and the perils and crudities of frontier Texas are perhaps more than he was expecting, but he's flexible enough not only to adjust but to even escape Jake's custody once--and, upon their second encounter, to redeem himself in a splendidly choreographed Indian attack on a rural ranch (watch for veteran Western actor Bob Steele as the owner of same), which leads to his acceptance into the Rangers and his partnership with Jake in the search for the hidden stronghold of the white renegades (the Comancheros of the title) who are providing the Indians with guns and even tactical support. As always seems to be the case in Wayne's films, much of the weight of the movie is carried by the wonderful lesser cast: Nehemiah Persoff as the crippled Comanchero mastermind Graile and Ina Balin as his daughter Pilar, whom Regret meets on the boat and with whom he falls in love (arrested by Jake, he vows to "turn Galveston inside out" to find her); Lee Marvin as gunrunner Tully Crow (one of his best roles); Michael Ansara and Richard Devon as Pilar's bodyguards, Amelung and Esteban (the latter of whom apparently loves her from afar, to the point of switching sides when Jake and Regret set out to arrest her father); Wayne's son Pat as the young Ranger Tobe; Edgar Buchanan absolutely delightful as the wily Judge Breen; and Joan O'Brien as Melinda Marshall, the widow for whom Jake has eyes. Though the historic ambience (especially the guns) isn't always accurate, the fast pace, unforgettable characters, and as-ever-splendid Bernstein score make up for it. Like my other Wayne favorite, "El Dorado," this is one I return to again and again--I can't even count how many times I've rewatched it, and I never get tired of it. A Wayne Western everyone's collection should include.
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