The Comancheros

Dec 16, 1961

1h 45m

★ 6.7

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!

Overview

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.

Genres

Western

Action

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

The Comancheros Trailers

Cast

Jake Cutter

John Wayne

Paul Regret

Stuart Whitman

Pilar Graile

Ina Balin

Graile

Nehemiah Persoff

Crow

Lee Marvin

Amelung

Michael Ansara

Tobe (Texas Ranger)

Patrick Wayne

Maj. Henry (Ranger CO)

Bruce Cabot

Melinda Marshall

Joan O'Brien

Horseface (Comanchero)

Jack Elam

Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen

Edgar Buchanan

Gireaux

Henry Daniell

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