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The Comancheros

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!

6.7(221)19611h 45m4

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$4.3M
Box office
$3.5M
Language
English
  • texas ranger
  • renegade
  • gambler

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremierePG1 Nov 1961
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical4 Jan 1962
    • TheatricalPG29 Jan 1962
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1222 Dec 1961
  • IrelandIE

    • TheatricalPG22 Dec 1961
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalG16 Dec 1961
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Physical6DVD7 Feb 2007
  • SpainES

    • TV29 Dec 1976

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The Comancheros was released on 16 December 1961.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    5/9/2014

    6.5/10

    Just like your first rattler. One look and you'll know. After winning a duel with a prominent and connected New Orleans man, gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) has to flee on account of impending arrest for murder. But he is soon captured by Texas Ranger, Jake Cutter (John Wayne), who sets about returning him to Louisiana to be hanged. However, in spite of their obvious professional differences, the men are forc…

  • D

    Dark Jedi

    9/10/2014

    7/10

    This movie was directed by both Michael Curtiz and John Wayne himself although the latter was never credited as a director. I so enjoyed myself when watching this movie. It is indeed a classical John Wayne western very far from todays special effects loaded action movies. I guess you must have a bit of a nostalgic attachment to old classics, characters like John Wayne and western movies in order to enjoy this movie. …

  • D

    drystyx

    4/18/2023

    9/10

    A Western Divine Comedy. This Duke Western is a modern day Dante's Inferno, as two protagonists enter a Hell on Earth. This "Hell" is created by an evil sadist played by Nehemiah Persoff. The two protagonists are Jake, played by John Wayne, and Regret, played by Stuart Whitman. Jake is a no nonsense Texas ranger with a weakness. He's honest. Regret is a likable lady's man who never looks for trouble, but trouble a…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    2/19/2026

    7/10

    This was always one of my favourite John Wayne films from childhood and the “Friday Western” on BBC2. Here he’s a Texas ranger who finds himself working with the suave, debonair and entirely untrustworthy duellist “Regret” (Stuart Whitman) against some very heavily armed renegades. Someone is running guns to the Comanches who are in turn marauding with some unsavoury folks based somewhere deep in the desert. “Jake” (…

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