The Comancheros

Movie
German title	The Comancheros
Original title	The Comancheros
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1961
length	107 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Michael Curtiz Cliff Lyons (listed for the action scenes only); John Wayne (not listed)
script	James Edward Grant Clark Huffaker
production	George Sherman
music	Elmer Bernstein
camera	William H. Clothier
cut	Louis Loeffler
occupation
John Wayne : Ranger Capt. Jake cutter Stuart Whitman : Paul Regret Ina Balin : Pilar Graile Nehemiah Persoff : Graile Lee Marvin : Tully Crow Michael Ansara : Amelung Patrick Wayne : Tobe Bruce Cabot : Maj. Henry Joan O'Brien : Melinda Marshall Jack Elam : Horseface Henry Daniell : Gireaux Edgar Buchanan : Judge Taddeus Breen Aissa Wayne : Bessie

The Comancheros (original title: The Comancheros ) is an American western by the director Michael Curtiz from 1961 based on the novel of the same name by Paul I. Wellman . It was Michael Curtiz's last film.

action

1843 in Texas. The Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests the under suspicion of murder player Paul Regret. Regret escapes on the way to the ranger station. Cutter gets into a conflict with the Comancheros , unscrupulous white outlaws who deliver weapons and alcohol to the Indians. You work for a southern bandit who wants to build an empire in Texas with the help of the Indians. Cutter meets Regret again, and the two become partners in a card game. Disguised, they smuggle themselves into the camp of the Comancheros and blow up their ammunition. Together with the approaching Texas Rangers, they defeat the bandits.

background

Veteran director Michael Curtiz was seriously ill with cancer a few months before his death while filming. So John Wayne took over the director's chair on a few days that Curtiz was too sick. But he declined to be mentioned in the opening credits for his directorial work.

The film was released in theaters in the Federal Republic of Germany on December 22, 1961, and it was first broadcast on television on October 25, 1975 on ARD .

criticism

• The lexicon of international films judged that The Comancheros was a “Western with a dense atmosphere and excellent landscape shots; excitingly staged, spiced with humor and irony throughout ”.

• Joe Hembus notes that the film shows old master Curtiz again in top form, fun and excitement are identical as always with Curtiz.

• Hardy highlights the performance of the action scenes director Cliff Lyons ; the perfect stunt performances contribute to the “lively atmosphere” of the film.

• For Thomas Jeier , Die Comancheros was “a very action-packed and enjoyable film ”.

literature

• Anton Giulio Mancino: John Wayne . Gremese, Rome 1998, 184 pp.

Web links

• The Comancheros in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• prisma-online.de: the comancheros

Individual evidence

1. ^ Filmlexikon.de and Spiegel.de .
2. ↑ The Comancheros. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ^ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. Carl Hanser Verlag Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977. ISBN 3-446-12189-7 , p. 99.
4. ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press Minneapolis 1984. ISBN 0-8300-0405-X , p. 278.
5. ↑ Thomas Jeier: The Western Film. - Orig. - Munich: Heyne, 1987 (Heyne Filmbibliothek; 32/102) - ISBN 3-453-86104-3 , p. 158