The Comancheros (film)

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 Balin, Lee Marvin, Nehemiah Persoff, Bruce Cabot, Jack Elam and Edgar Buchanan. Also featured are western film veterans Bob Steele, Guinn Big Boy Williams and Harry Carey, Jr. in uncredited supporting roles.

In 1843 roguish gambler Paul Regret Stuart Whitman escapes a death penalty after killing in a duel Emil Bouvier Gregg Palmer, the son of a Louisiana judge. Regret claimed that he would have only wounded Bouvier if he hadnt sidestepped. He is captured by Texas Ranger Jake Cutter John Wayne after a tryst with a mysterious lady, Pilar Graile Ina Balin. Regret manages to escape, but is subsequently recaptured after a chance encounter with Cutter in a saloon.In the process of returning Regret to Louisiana, Cutter is forced to join forces with the condemned to fight the Comancheros, a large criminal gang headed by a former Confederate officer that smuggles guns and whiskey to the Comanche Indians to make money and keep the frontier in a state of violence. Cutter stops at a ranch owned by a friend when there is a sudden Comanche attack. During the attack Regret hops on a horse and flees, but instead of making a clean getaway he soon returns with a unit of Texas Rangers and the attack is repulsed. ........

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