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The Comancheros is a 1961 American CinemaScope Western 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, Joan O'Brien, Patrick Wayne, and Edgar Buchanan.
A Texas Ranger and a gambler team up to stop a gang of Comancheros, who deal with the Comanches and sell arms to the Indians. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this film.
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- Drama, Western
- Michael Curtiz, John Wayne
- 1961-11-29
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the classic western film The Comancheros, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring John Wayne. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, and more on IMDb.
The Comancheros were a group of 18th- and 19th-century traders based in northern and central New Mexico. They made their living by trading with the nomadic Great Plains Indian tribes in northeastern New Mexico, West Texas, and other parts of the southern plains of North America.
After his partner is killed, aging Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (John Wayne) is assigned to capture gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman), a condemned prisoner who...
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- Michael Curtiz
- PG
- John Wayne
A classic western film starring John Wayne as a Texas ranger who joins forces with a gambler to stop a weapons smuggler. Learn more about the plot, cast, crew, production, and reception of The Comancheros on TCM.
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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 dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.
