The Comancheros (1961) Reviews & Ratings

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The Comancheros reviews

The Comancheros holds a 6.7/10 average from 219 TMDB ratings.

Just like your first rattler. One look and you'll know. After winning a duel with a prominent and connected New Orleans man, gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) has to flee on account of impending arrest for murder. But he is soon captured by Texas Ranger, Jake Cutter (John Wayne), who sets about returning him to Louisiana to be hanged. However, in spite of their obvious professional differences, the men are forced…
— John Chard (6.5/10)

This movie was directed by both Michael Curtiz and John Wayne himself although the latter was never credited as a director. I so enjoyed myself when watching this movie. It is indeed a classical John Wayne western very far from todays special effects loaded action movies. I guess you must have a bit of a nostalgic attachment to old classics, characters like John Wayne and western movies in order to enjoy this movie.…
— Dark Jedi (7/10)

A Western Divine Comedy. This Duke Western is a modern day Dante's Inferno, as two protagonists enter a Hell on Earth. This "Hell" is created by an evil sadist played by Nehemiah Persoff. The two protagonists are Jake, played by John Wayne, and Regret, played by Stuart Whitman. Jake is a no nonsense Texas ranger with a weakness. He's honest. Regret is a likable lady's man who never looks for trouble, but trouble alw…
— drystyx (9/10)

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.

Movies like The Comancheros

If you enjoyed The Comancheros, these movies have a similar feel:

• The Lone Ranger (2013)
• Comanche Station (1960)
• Barbarosa (1982)
• Rio Bravo (1959)
• Day of the Outlaw (1959)
• The Man from the Alamo (1953)
• Open Range (2003)
• Boss Nigger (1975)
• Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
• Lone Star (1996)
• Young Guns II (1990)
• Rio Lobo (1970)

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