Don't let Leonard Malton's video guide review of 3-stars for this film misguide you. There are many well done westerns, some of them Wayne's, that are worth your time and money. This one, Curtiz's last, is a colorful, but tediously long, sugar-coated, Hollywood western. Committing numerous sins this film has supposedly Texas Comanches that look like Kansas Plains Indians, set in an Arizona landscape, with outfits that come right out of central costuming. There is little action, and even that is disappointing. The story, as others have written, is confusing and rambling. Characters, Lee Marvin for one, are written out of the script with little or no credible motivation ( late contract dispute?). All in all, a film that may have only made a quick trip to the drive-ins when it came out in it's own day.
Review of The Comancheros
