The Comancheros
PG

The Comancheros

Big Jake the Adventurer... Paul Regret the Gambler... Pilar the Gypsy beauty... Three With a Past... Destined to Cross and Clash... In a Kingdom of Killers!

1961 • 105 min • Western

Our family guide

Best from age 9
87
Movie Knight Score
220 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 4 · 60%
  • 67 Audience · 216 · 40%

Jake Cutter, askari wa Texas Ranger, anamkamata Paul Regret, mchezaji kamari, lakini hivi karibuni wanaungana. Wanaingia mafichoni ili kuwazuia Comancheros, kundi la wahalifu wanaouza silaha na kuzua ghasia. Tarajia matukio ya kawaida ya Western yenye milio ya risasi na mikimbizano.

Violence & peril
4/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
2/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
3/10

Heads up

  • Vurugu za kawaida za kipindi hicho zenye bunduki
  • Baadhi ya wahusika wanakunywa na kuvuta sigara
  • Taswira za Wenyeji wa Amerika zinaweza kuakisi fikra potofu za zamani

What it models well

  • Haki na utekelezaji wa sheria
  • Urafiki na uaminifu
  • Ukombozi na nafasi ya pili

Talk about it after

  • Ni nini kinamfanya mtu kuwa shujaa?
  • Jukumu la sheria katika ardhi zisizotulia
  • Kuchagua lililo sawa badala ya lililo baya

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Top billed cast

Director: Michael Curtiz • Crew: James Edward Grant, Clair Huffaker

Trailers & clips

The Comancheros (1961) ORIGINAL TRAILER

Reviewer notes

Recommended

This was always one of my favourite John Wayne films from childhood and the “Friday Western” on BBC2. Here he’s a Texas ranger who finds himself working with the suave, debonair and entirely untrustworthy duellist “Regret” (Stuart Whitman) against some very heavily armed renegades. Someone is running guns to the Comanches who are in turn marauding with some unsavoury folks based somewhere deep in the desert.…

Recommended

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.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

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.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

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.…

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Details

TMDB audience
6.7/10 (216)
Age rating
PG
Status
Released
Budget
$4,260,000
Box office
$3,500,000

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