The Comancheros

After taking gambler Paul Regret into custody, Cutter is forced to team up with his prisoner on a covert mission to tackle a band of thieves and gun runners called the Comancheros. This final film from Casablanca director Michael Curtiz features star support from Lee Marvin and Nehemiah Persoff, and a stirring score by Elmer Bernstein., Based on a novel by Paul I. Wellman, The Comancheros stars John Wayne and Stuart Whitman as a Texas Ranger and roguish gambler, respectively. Reluctantly joining forces, Wayne and Whitman try to round up the “comancheros” — renegade whites who’ve aligned with the Indians in smuggling guns and whisky. Ina Balin plays the daughter of comanchero chieftain Nehemiah Persoff, who rescues Stu and the Duke when they’re captured by the renegades. After the anticipated climactic battle, Wayne allows Whitman and Balin — fugitives from justice both–to ride into the sunset together. The last film directed by the estimable Michael Curtiz, The Comancheros is fine testosterone-laden entertainment. Keep an eye out for veteran western stars Bob Steele and Guinn “Big Boy” Williams in uncredited supporting roles. More than a few elements from The Comancheros would find their way into Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, albeit without the happy ending., 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., Western starring John Wayne as Texas Ranger Jake Cutter. After taking gambler Paul Regret (into custody, Cutter is forced to team up with his prisoner on a covert mission to tackle a band of thieves and gun runners called the Comancheros. This final film from Casablanca director Michael Curtiz features star support from Lee Marvin and Nehemiah Persoff, and a stirring score by Elmer Bernstein., Tough Texas Ranger John Wayne reluctantly teams up with his prisoner when Lee Marvin’s gang of arms dealers attack. Action-packed Western, directed by Michael Curtiz., A Texas Ranger runs across a gang of white renegades, called the Comancheros, who are trading guns and other contraband with marauding Comanches from a secret hideout in Mexico. He goes undercover as a partner with a vicious outlaw who is a contact man with the Comancheros and knows the whereabouts of their hideout in Mexico. Director Michael Curtiz’s last film., Spectacular, action-packed tongue-in-cheek Western starring John Wayne as a Texas Ranger on the trail of renegade whites led by Nehemiah Persoff who are running guns and whisky to warring Indians., A Texas Ranger runs across a gang of white renegades, called the Comancheros, who are trading guns and other contraband with marauding Comanches from a secret hideout in Mexico. He goes undercover as a partner with a vicious outlaw who is a contact man with the Comancheros and knows the whereabouts of their hideout in Mexico., Fast-paced western adventure about a Texas Ranger in pursuit of a gang of vicious outlaws who are running guns and whiskey to the Comanches. The gang’s megalomaniac leader is a renegade Confederate officer who has hatched an evil scheme to build an empire in Mexico, using the Comanches to attack the Union. The Ranger, assisted only by a local gambler, takes on the powerful outlaw and his henchmen., Cowboy cop Jake Rutter is forced to rely on a criminal’s help to fight off a brutal gang known as The Comancheros., Hard-hitting Texas Ranger, on orders, penetrates the ranks of the Comancheros, an outlaw gang supplying guns and liquor to the dreaded Comanches.