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The Comancheros
DVD cover
Directed byMichael Curtiz
Uncredited:
John Wayne
Produced byGeorge Sherman
Screenplay byJames Edward Grant
Clair Huffaker
Based onThe Comancheros
by Paul I. Wellman
StarringJohn Wayne
Stuart Whitman
Ina Balin
Lee Marvin
Nehemiah Persoff
Bruce Cabot
Music byElmer Bernstein
CinematographyWilliam H. Clothier
Edited byLouis Loeffler
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dateNovember 1, 1961
Running time105 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4,260,000

Stuart Whitman & Ina Balin

The Comancheros is a 1961 Western Deluxe CinemaScope color film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on a 1952 novel of the same name by Paul Wellman, and starring John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. The supporting cast includes Ina BalinLee MarvinNehemiah PersoffBruce CabotJack ElamPatrick Wayne, and Edgar Buchanan. Also featured are Western-film veterans Bob SteeleGuinn “Big Boy” Williams, and Harry Carey, Jr. in uncredited supporting roles.

When illness prevented Curtiz (director of Casablanca and The Adventures of Robin Hood) from finishing the film, Wayne took over as director, though his role remained uncredited. Curtiz died shortly after the film was completed.

John Wayne in The Comancheros

Parts of the film were shot in Professor Valley, Dead Horse Point, King’s Bottom, La Sal Mountains, Fisher Valley, Onion Creek, Hurrah Pass and Haver Ranch in Utah.

Bosley Crowther called the film “so studiously wild and woolly it turns out to be good fun”; according to Crowther, “[t]here’s not a moment of seriousness in it, not a detail that isn’t performed with a surge of exaggeration, not a character that is credible.”

A song recorded by Claude King covered some of the plot of this film. It was meant to be released with the film but was only used in trailers.

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