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
Synopsis
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Our family guide
Best from age 9- 100 Reviewers · 4 · 60%
- 67 Audience · 216 · 40%
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests a gambler, Paul Regret, but they soon team up. They go undercover to stop the Comancheros, a group of outlaws selling weapons and stirring up trouble. Expect classic Western adventure with gunfights and chases.
- Violence & peril
- 4/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 2/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 3/10
Heads up
- Period-typical violence with firearms
- Some characters drink and smoke
- Depictions of Native Americans may reflect outdated stereotypes of their time
What it models well
- Justice and law enforcement
- Friendship and loyalty
- Redemption and second chances
Talk about it after
- What makes a hero?
- The role of law in unsettled lands
- Choosing right over wrong
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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
RecommendedThis 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.…
RecommendedA 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 reviewersThis 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 reviewersJust 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
- IMDb
- tt0054757
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