Comanche Station is a 1960 American CinemaScope western film
directed by Budd Boetticher
and starring Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, and Claude Akins.
The film was the last of Boetticher's late 1950s Ranown Cycle.
User Review
QuoteDisplay MoreExcellent story, Scott at his best, not to be missed
8 August 2005 | by tmwest (S. Paulo, Brazil)
John Ford could a make a great film that happened to be a western,
Anthony Mann could make great westerns with a dark side to them,
Sergio Leone could do great stylized westerns but nobody could like
Budd Boetticher do a pure, simple, conventional western,
where the best would be in what seems to be minor details.
Comanche Station is the story of a man, Randolph Scott obsessed with the idea
of finding his missing wife, captured by the Indians.
To him money does not matter at all, he is the opposite of Claude Akins
who will do anything to get the 5000 dollars offered to deliver the woman
Scott rescued from the Comanches to her husband.
The "bad guys" here are not just bad guys, they are men who feel there is a chance
to change their lives by getting the reward and that will be one chance in a lifetime.
They also think that to survive in the west they have to be hard.
Their sense of morality goes down the drain surpassed by these other feelings.
Richard Rust (Dobie) is the one who in spite of everything has good feelings
. Boetticher is an expert in action scenes and here he is as good as always.
He does not need to make them in the dark because it is easier.
An excellent story, which is a quality of every "Ranown" film,
Randolph Scott at his best and the unique direction of Boetticher make
"Comanche Station" a film not to be missed.