COMANCHE STATION
PRODUCED & DIRECTED BUDD BOETTICHER
RANOWN PICTURES CORPORATION (Randolph Scott)
COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION
Photo with the courtesy of lasbugas
Information from IMDb
Plot Summary
Loner Cody trades with the Comanches to get a white girl released.
He is joined on his way back to the girl's husband by an outlaw and his sidekicks. I
t turns out there is a large reward for the return of the girl, and with the Indians on the warpath
and the outlaw being an old enemy of Cody's, things are set for several showdowns.
Written by Jeremy Perkins
Full Cast
Randolph Scott ... Jefferson Cody
Nancy Gates ... Nancy Lowe
Claude Akins ... Ben Lane
Skip Homeier ... Frank
Richard Rust ... Dobie
Rand Brooks ... Station Man
Dyke Johnson ... John Lowe
P. Holland ... Lowe Boy (uncredited)
Foster Hood ... Comanche Lance Bearer (uncredited)
Joe Molina ... Comanche Chief (uncredited)
Vince St. Cyr ... Warrior (uncredited)
Produced
Budd Boetticher .... producer
Harry Joe Brown .... executive producer
Randolph Scott .... producer (uncredited)
Writing Credits
Burt Kennedy (written by)
Original Music
Mischa Bakaleinikoff (uncredited)
Cinematography
Charles Lawton Jr.
Trivia
This film is the last of the "Ranown Westerns", produced by star
Randolph Scott and his partner Harry Joe Brown under the Ranown Pictures banner.
Scott decided to retire after this one, but two years later
he was talked out of retirement by Sam Peckinpah for Ride the High Country.
After that film, Scott retired for good.
There are numerous mentions to the "Stage to Lordsburg," the original title
of John Ford's stagecoach, which writer Kennedy is obviously including a paean to.
After the parties leave the Comanche Station they cross a wide,
shallow expanse of water and in the middle of the water,
centered in the frame is a dead tree trunk that looks
suspiciously like the hanging tree from Ride Lonesome...
Goofs
Plot holes
When Cody pulls the saddle off his now fallen horse and flings it at a Comanche,
unseating him, he doesn't take the time to unbuckle the cinch.
Without doing that, the saddle would never have come off.
Filming Locations
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
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