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The Comancheros
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.
1961 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 105 min · Western · 8 frames
Tagline
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!
Crew
- Screenplay: James Edward Grant, Clair Huffaker
- Cinematography: William H. Clothier
- Edited by: Louis R. Loeffler
- Music: Elmer Bernstein
- Produced by: George Sherman
Cast
- John Wayne as Jake Cutter
- Stuart Whitman as Paul Regret
- Ina Balin as Pilar Graile
- Nehemiah Persoff as Graile
- Lee Marvin as Crow
- Michael Ansara as Amelung
- Patrick Wayne as Tobe (Texas Ranger)
- Bruce Cabot as Maj. Henry (Ranger CO)
- Joan O'Brien as Melinda Marshall
- Jack Elam as Horseface (Comanchero)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $4,260,000
- Box office: $3,500,000
- Themes: texas ranger, renegade, gambler
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