Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

bsmith5552 "Comanche Station" was the seventh and final collaboration between Producer/Director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott.Again, Scott is a loner searching for something or somebody. As Jefferson Cody he riding to negotiate the freedom of a white woman from the Comanche. The woman turns out to be Nancy Lowe (Nancy Gates) who was taken during a stagecoach holdup. We learn much later that Cody has been searching for his wife who had been similarly taken ten years before.Cody plans to take the woman back to her husband in Lordsburg. They arrive at Comanche Station, a relay station and find it deserted. Just then three men are fleeing a hostile Comanche war party. They join Cody and manage to drive the Indians away.Ben Lane (Claude Akins) is the leader and he and Cody immediately recognize each other. It seems they have a past. The other two are simple uneducated drifters, Frank (Skip Homier) and Dobie (Richard Rust). The station agent (Rand Brooks) rides in with an arrow in his chest and warns of the warring Comanche bands all over the area before he dies.Cody decides that he better move on. Lane decides to go along since there is a $5,000 reward for the return of Mrs. Lowe to her husband. Both Cody and Lane wonder out loud why the husband did not come after his wife himself. Lane tells Cody that he is after the reward and will do anything necessary, including killing Cody, to get it.Lane sends Frank ahead to scout the Comanche only to find him floating down the stream dead. Cody is attacked by the Comanche while searching for a safe crossing across an open area. In a curious move, Lane rides to his rescue and saves Cody's life. In an earlier moving scene between Frank an Dobie, they discuss their lives and life choices. Frank is satisfied with his life as is, while Dobie longs for something better.Finally, Lane decides to make his move to kill Cody. Dobie tries to leave not wanting to be a part of the killing but is shot down by Lane. Cody then goes after Lane and......................................This being the last film in the series, one can look back and see many similarities in the plots of the various films. For example. Scott's characters are all loners for one reason or another searching for something. He and whomever he is "bringing in" always seemed to arrive at a relay station where the main characters hook up. They all ride out in a group to escape either the Indians or a pursuing gang across open country and the same bushed in areas. (I'm sure I spotted that hanging tree from "Ride Lonesome" (1958) in this film. Scott never actually gets to the town he is headed for, I suppose due to budget restrictions.Nevertheless It was a great series of beautifully photographed little westerns. Randolph Scott decided to "hang 'em up" after this film only to be lured out of retirement for one last film in 1962's "Ride the Hugh Country"

wes-connors Mysterious westerner Randolph Scott (as Jefferson Cody) arrives in Comanche Territory (in or around Texas) to exchange goods for beautiful brunette Nancy Gates (as Nancy Lowe), who was abducted and turned into a White squaw (sex partner) for someone in the tribe. Her husband is offering $5,000 for Ms. Gates' return. She and Mr. Scott quickly become involved in a Comanche attack on fellow bounty hunter Claude Akins (as Ben Lane) and his two young guns, Richard Rust (as Dobie) and Skip Homeier (as Frank). Successful in warding off the Native Americans, the men decide to travel together for extra protection. However, it soon becomes clear Mr. Akins plans to violently take out Scott and collect the $5,000 reward for himself..."Comanche Territory" was the last of several fine westerns from director Budd Boetticher and his team. The formula usually involves Scott taking an uncommonly beautiful woman somewhere alongside a potentially hazardous rival and some younger actors. This time, the most unknown actor in the cast makes the biggest impression as Mr. Rust's reluctant gunslinger (deemed "too gentle" by mentor Atkins) rides off with the film. It is through this character moving the story along – writer Burt Kennedy succeeds in making us forget Scott should have settled with Atkins after 20 minutes; even with the Comanche around, he'd have had a safer trip. Although we sometimes lose track of Scott's story, a powerful ending brings it all back home.******** Comanche Station (3/1/60) Budd Boetticher ~ Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Richard Rust, Claude Akins

mortycausa A fine, fine movie. It's a movie about a man on a quest to find his wife who was abducted by the Indians. He's been searching for her for ten years. The movie is about staying true to yourself by refusing to forsake your commitments. By chance he runs across another woman who was abducted by Indians, buys her from them, and the relationship between them develops into a close one, but not a romantic one. What's unusual is that this movie is about respect between a man and a woman. It doesn't settle for the easy score. You get the sense that a romantic relationship might have developed between them had it not been for their respective prior commitments, but both of them must stay true to those commitments and to their core sense of themselves. Scott has never been more laconic. He gets a lot out of a few words and a look. He doesn't play the role; he is that lonely man on what is probably a fruitless quest. When complications arise in the form of outlaw bounty hunters, you see how the Scott character might have turned out if he had no code and no sense of self. What's more, he realizes it. He knows the line that he didn't cross is a thin one, and it's always there. Maybe his wife had something to do with that, but most definitely his commitment to his code does. The young men who have taken a wrong turn are particularly poignant. It's a really well-structured and dramatically developed movie. The ending is touching, exactly right. This was to be Scott's valedictory, but a couple of years later he came back and re-teamed with his great western star rival of the '50s Joel McCrea in what many consider another western masterpiece, Ride the High Country, which also is similar in theme and character.

paulmoran99 Story details by other reviewers of Commanche Station are well written; I would like to look at details of this side-lined Western.To fully understand the nature of Randolph Scott Westerns you have to think the 1950's; I can because I was there, watching every ' cowboy film ' that came out. Westerns then were part of a boys everyday life. I remember at the age of 8-10 riding around my home town on an imaginary horse; we even formed imaginary posses!.....and Westerns were being shown at local cinemas every week.Randolph Scott played other parts in his long career but achieved a curious fame as a man-of-few-words cowboy. What was it that drew audiences to him despite his limited acting ability?It is simply this. He was tall and lean, epitomising the rangy, half-starved loner who is doomed, like the Flying Dutchmen to roam the western badlands fruitlessly. He was stoic, thin- lipped, stern-looking, brooding, with sad eyes, forever looking to the next horizon, as he does in this film. If you look into Scott's face there's faint suggestion of longing, a faint wistfulness, hidden by a determined effort to hide any weakness. It's a face that no other western hero has, making Scott a magnet on screen......in the light of this,his acting ability was not in question.Comanche Station also has a surprisingly good performance from Claude Akins; in fact, stealing a few scenes from Scott. He epitomized malevolency and cold cunning, but smiled easily, perversely emphasising points he made in the character. One long observation his character made concerning Nancy's return to her husband was loaded with cynicism and spite....perfect.In the action scenes he showed himself also to be a fine horseman.....if that really was him firing a rifle on horseback!Nancy Gates cruised thru her role with little impact; but what western girl didn't?......in the hard, troubled world of the 1950's clearly defined male cowboy, there was little room for strong females.Commanche Station is a great Western because of it's love affair with the very nature of the genre; tall enigmatic men, the outback, the wide open spaces, the tumbled rocks that threaten to hide hoards of Indians, and the ever-present but unloved horses, surely the most unsung animal of all time.You'll remember this film because of these things; but mostly because here, encapsulated in 70 minutes, are all of the elements and nuances that all great westerns have or should have.What more do you want?!