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Comanche Station is the purest of the Ranown films (though Seven Men from Now and The Tall T remain the most exciting). Scott plays Jefferson Cody, a loner dedicated to riding the wasteland to ransom women captured by Indians--hoping against hope to recover his own wife, lost these many years. This time the rescued lady (Nancy Gates) has a reward on her, which genial bad man/good fellow Ben Lane (Claude Akins) would like to claim. And thereby hangs a wonderfully wry and tensile tale, expertly told by the reigning absurdist of the Old West. (It's worth noting that Comanche Station obviously was a big influence on Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country two years later, though Peckinpah denied it.) --Richard T. Jameson
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Budd Boetticher |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | March, 1960 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Columbia/Tristar Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Western |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396822139 |
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What Hollywood has Lost There was a time when Randolph Scott sat as tall in the saddle as John Wayne. It is most unfortunate that most of his work is not on DVD and some of his best (The Tall T) aren't even currently on VHS! Scott's westerns of the 50's decade revealed a versatile and talented actor, which is remarkable for a star who was instantly recognizable and reliable to play a hero of certain standards. One thing that is that is also remarkable about these films (and The Tall T immediately comes to mind) is they certainly didn't need a big budget. Instead, a good, suspenseful script, excellent cast, and dare I say, a redeeming morality made for an excellent and classic film.
After watching all kinds of Westerns: Spaghetti, modern revisionist, Hollywood 40's, 50's, 60's, & 70's, I sat down to watch a few Randolph Scott movies and was literally on the edge of my seat. And this was right after sitting through the over-the-top effects wizardry of Van Helsing! Mr. Scott's extraordinary but ordinary characters made me forget I was watching a movie and drew me into the story and issues as if they were happening to me.
Randolph Scott is virtually relegated to obscurity today compared to the major Western star he was many years ago. This is our loss. A boxed set or two of his great Westerns would be a small step in the right direction of returning him to his proper status in film history. More importantly, after watching just a few of his movies and the realistic honor portrayed by him, I am left with the distinct feeling that the world was a better place with with Randy in the saddle, and his kind will not ride through again.
Before the high country!
Slightly disappointing Scott/Boetticher western with Comanches looking more like Mohicans when you look at their haircut. Nancy Gates had been held prisoner at the Comanches, but looks more like she just came from tea with her aunt on a Sunday afternoon. Some nice photography, though - and Scott has a beautiful pony in this one!
One of the great Westerns.
this astounding Western mixes a modernist treatment of space (look at the way Boetticher grids the West, through composition, editing and camerawork) with a story of mythological force - a man spends his life wandering deserts looking for his probably dead wife. The ironical sense of an imprisoning West creates a sense of the Hell to which Cody has been condemned. This enforced loneliness is not mere self-pitying - the old ideals of the West have been debased by genocide and greed; solitude is the only moral stand possible, and yet it cuts one off from family or community. Heartbreaking.