Amazon.com: The Comancheros: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff: Amazon Digital Services LLC. The Comancheros: John Wayne (1961). John Wayne, Lee Marvin. to catch a band of 'comancheros,' white men who smuggle guns and liquor. The Comancheros: Regie: Michael Curtiz John Wayne: Producent: George Sherman: Scenario: James Edward Grant Clair Huffaker Paul I. Wellman (roman) Hoofdrollen: John Wayne. The Comancheros. The explosive action scenes are the best things about this rumbustious John Wayne Western, as one might expect from the Hungarian- born director Michael Curtiz, whose last film this was. Curtiz made almost all of Errol Flynn's best action films, including Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Sea Hawk. You may also be aware of a little wartime romance he made called Casablanca. Wayne, of course, remains largely impervious to direction, although the story goes that he was required to deliver a spectacular ad- lib during shooting when a pack of horses, affected by the heat, bolted forward in the direction of a group of children. 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.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. The Duke, sharper than anyone, broke away from the scene he was playing and flung himself on the nearest horse, preventing a tragedy. Well, that's the story.. For the rest, Lee Marvin makes a fine, swaggering, half- scalped bad guy but disappears all too soon.
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