
Loner Cody trades with the Comanches to get a white girl released. He is joined on his way back to the girl's husband by an outlaw and his sidekicks. It turns out there is a large reward for the return of the girl, and with the Indians on the warpath and the outlaw being an old enemy of Cody's, things are set for several showdowns.... (Full plot summary below)
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Loner Cody trades with the Comanches to get a white girl released. He is joined on his way back to the girl's husband by an outlaw and his sidekicks. It turns out there is a large reward for the return of the girl, and with the Indians on the warpath and the outlaw being an old enemy of Cody's, things are set for several showdowns.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonFans will notice the same general plot arc and the same general characters as the other six [films], but still told with the same expert economy, use of space and psychological detail. |
| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostStrange Western with unusually sympathetic bad guys. |
| User Reviewogn don tv in 5 minutes. time for a bong hit before it starts |
| User ReviewWilliam WWOW.....WOW....SUCH AN ENJOYABLE MOVIE 2 WATCH WITH SUCH A FANTASTIC CAST THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE IT IS SUCH A FANTASTIC MOVIE 2 WATCH WITH SUCH A BRILLIANT CAST THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE......WARNING THIS MOVIE CONTAINS STROBE LIGHTNING EFFECTS THROUGHOUT SOME SCENES THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE....... ITS GOT SUCH A FANTASTIC SOUNDTRACK THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE IT IS SUCH A BRILLIANT MOVIE 2 WATCH WITH A BRILLIANT CAST THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE........ |
| User ReviewRussell GThe last of the Budd/RAndolph westerns, and it was another top notch one. Left me profoundly sad at the end. |
| User ReviewJustin RThe last of the great 'Ranown' cycle of westerns starring Randolph Scott, produced by Harry Joe Brown (hence the production company's name - Ran for Randoph and Own for Brown), written by Burt Kennedy and directed by the brilliant Budd Boetticher. Kennedy's script hits all the of the familiar (and perfect) notes - Scott as the lone gunman with a tragic past, Claude Akins as the adversary who has an amiable but uneasy relationship with Scott, and Nancy Gates as the always glamorous female lead being escorted through hostile Indian territory. And as always, Boetticher treats his small film as if it were an epic, filling his Cinemascope canvas with gorgeous location photography (his old favorite, the Alabama Hills of Lone Pine, California) and placing his actors into arenas of combat, thus recalling his days as a bullfighter in Mexico. A brilliant and exciting way to wind up an important cinematic partnership that ranks right up there with John Wayne and John Ford, James Stewart and Anthony Mann, and Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone. (And by the way, Scott was to retire after this picture, but was lured out of retirement two years later by director Sam Peckinpah to make the landmark western Ride the High Country. After that film, he finally did call it quits). |
| User ReviewZoran SBrilliant final Ranown western staring Randolph Scott and directed by Budd Boetticher, this time with Scott's lonely wanderer rescuing Nancy Gates from the Comanche, but finding an equal foe in Claude Akins, who is looking to cash in on some reward money. Akins, as the somewhat sympathetic villain, has a key monologue that mirrors, almost exactly, Lee Marvin's from "Seven Men From Now", also written by Burt Kennedy, and in lesser hands it would feel like the wheels falling off a lucrative franchise, and maybe it was, but Boetticher handles the familiar material with his usual carefully planned use of rocky landscape and precision editing to turn a nominal cowboys and Indians and bounty hunters yarn into a game of psychological and physical warfare. |
| User ReviewArt SThe Classic Boetticher formula proves successful and entertaining yet again. Great little twist at the end, too. |
| User ReviewGreg WStrange Western with unusually sympathetic bad guys. |
| User ReviewJohn RWednesday, August 28, 2013 (1960) Comanche Station ADULT WESTERN The seventh and final collaboration of Randolph Scott and director Budd Boetticher did together. Scott as Jefferson Cody who just happens to successfully trade some goods with the Comanche Indians for a young white lady who was obviously been kidnapped. They then stop by to an almost isolated area called the "Comanche Station" where they're met with three other rustlers headed by an old foe Ben Lane played by Claude Akins. It is soon revealed that their happens to be a very generous reward for her return whether she's alive or dead. Conflicts soon arise. As with all Scott/ Boetticher western collaborations, they're some of the best of the genre since they consist a specific amount of authenticity and suspense since they're riding with one another suspected from viewers that something is going to happen for it's just a matter of when. This is not a shoot 'em up western that is usually expected to John Wayne movies since it's more realistic than that for the questions we have while watching this would eventually be reveled as the film progresses up until the very end. 3 out of 4 stars |