Bezenby Notable Actors: William Shatner! Joseph Cotton! Victor Isreal! William Shatner again! I leave reservation and travel many miles on my BMX to see this film many moons ago. Me heap excited to see Comanche people on film as me feel tribe under-represented in the cinematic medium. Um Squaw 'couldn't be arsed' so me go on lonesome.Me not know who William Shatner is but me not remember many ginger folk in tribe. And he two brothers? One of which take Peyote? We not takers of such drugs. Our um only weakness is Steakbake from Greggs on reservation. I see recent picture of William Shatner and he look like he like Steakbake too. Quite a lot.So there's one Shatner who bad (and he Indian one! Not good!) and one who boring cowboy type who I guess is Indian too). Indian Shatner want kill white man for boom-stick and horses and cowboy Shatner want stick peace pipe in Rosanna Yanni's Happy Hunting Ground.Also, grumpy old Bastard Joseph Cotton got problems with white ranch men fighting but they seem to kill each other without Shatner getting involved too much, although this meant big gun fight happen too soon. Grumpy old Bastard Joseph Cotton good here, but better in Lady Frankenstien (which good because you see Rosalba Neri's Teepees! And in Slaughter Hotel you see her under scalp!).Shatner then fight Shatner in end. This a bit bloodier than usual film but crappy too due to cheapness and Shatner crapness. How!

Dalbert Pringle (Yep. May contain spoilers) OK - I ask you - Are 2 William Shatners (teamed up together in a single movie) better than one William Shatner?Well, without even the slightest bit of hesitation, I'd confidently answer - No way, Jose. 2 are not better than one, as is so plainly evident here in White Comanche. (Did they ever attempt this sort of duplication nonsense with Shatner in Star Trek?) As I'm sure everyone is aware - Shatner played dual roles in White Comanche. And, yep, it was the predictably stale tale of "good boy/bad boy" here, as well. And even though these identical, half-breed, twin brothers may have been at total odds with each other and hung out on different sides of the tracks (so to speak), it became clearly evident, right off the bat, that when it came to their choice of jeans that these 2 brothers obviously shopped at the same bargain-basement outpost for style and brand. (This, you can well-imagine, cut down, big-time, on any repeated wardrobe changes for Shatner throughout the story.) Featuring a decidedly "Jazz" soundtrack, White Comanche, with its preposterous violence, and its pure slapstick rape scene, contained every single Western-movie cliché (imaginable) in the book. In fact, White Comanche was so utterly disappointing at times that it was almost enough to turn one right off the genre of Westerns, once and for all.Veteran actor, Joseph Cotten, as Sheriff Logan (Rio Hondo's pathetically useless law-enforcer), looked bored and tired in his role. Put quite plainly, Cotten's less-than-fascinating performance as Deputy Dawg could only be best described as nothing short of a total "phone in". Tsk-Tsk on Joseph Cotten.If nothing else, White Comanche featured some really hilarious stunts. Like, for instance, when "good" twin (Johnny Moon) jumped off a 40 foot cliff to escape the wrath of some of the General's henchmen, he landed squarely in amongst a tangle of treacherous looking bushes. Certain that Johhny must now be punctured and mangled to pieces by the many sharp branches, he, literally, walked away from this ordeal completely unscratched. (Ha! - What a hoot!) When it came to shoot-outs in White Comanche, it seemed that being shot straight through the forehead (dead center, of course) was, undoubtedly, the most popular way of all to die. And if that wasn't demented enough, the male actors (who were the Comanche braves) totally killed me, wearing the dumbest looking, most ill-fitting wigs that I've ever seen.P.S.Try watching White Comanche in black and white. I certainly found it more suitable when viewed this way, rather than in color.

limelog This movie gets extremely low ratings and rankings on almost every website you look at, but this is one of the best westerns I have seen. Yes, it's low budget, 1960's foreign attempt at an American Western, but somehow it manages to be one of the best westerns ever. Somewhere over the years this film seems to have slipped into the public domain because it's on a lot of the big multi-pack movie sets from Platinum DVD, TreeLine, and Mill Creek. It's also available for free on several legitimate websites. So, since it's free online, and only a few pennies to get on DVD you should give this one a look if you ever enjoyed a spaghetti western, or ever feel nostalgic for old 1960's westerns.

sol1218 (There are Spoilers) Almost getting hanged at the start of the movie for being mistaken for his kill crazy brother Notah White/Comanche half-breed Johnny Moon, William Shatner playing a duel role,has just about had it and decides to ride into Comanche territory,Johnny wants to challenge Notah to a duel and finally get it over with by either killing Notah so he won't commit any more crimes that he's, Johnny, been unjustifiably accused off. And that doesn't work or get killed by Notah himself so he won't by around and alive to have that problem any more.Meanwhile Notah is up to his old tricks again by attacking a stagecoach with his band of Comanche braves killing everyone on it. Raping the only survivor Kelly, Rossanna Yanni, as Natah goes back home to get stoned out on peyote to enhance is visions. He plans to resurrect the great Comanche nation and thus drive the hated white man out of it's ancestral lands.Johnny showing up at Notah's place challenges him to a duel to the death. The two brothers decide that it should take place in neutral territory, the quiet little town of Rio Hondo, four days hence. On his way to Rio Hondo Johnny gets involved with a local dispute there between the General,Mariano Vilda, and the towns salon owner Grimes, Louis Prendes. Johnny coming to the rescue gunned down two of the General's men who were about to hang one of Grimes work-hands Ellis,Vincent Roca. Ellis was fooling around with territorial markers on the General's and Grimes property.Getting into Rio Hondo for some rest before his big showdown with Notah Johnny is first recognized by one of the General's men his younger brother Coor, Javier Maiza, as the man who gunned down his men. Kelly mistakes him for his brother Notah,which is a very common happening in the film, as the man who held up the stagecoach tries to apprehend him. Johnny has a knock down an drag out brawl with Coors whom he puts to sleep with a number of kicks and straight rights. Luckily he just misses being shot and killed by an outraged Kelly.Convincing Kelly and the town sheriff Logan, Joseph Cotton, that he's not his murderous half-breed brother Notah, the only difference between Johnny and Notah is the color their eyes, Kelly falls in love with her now mistaken rapist ,the proper and gentlemanly Johnny Moon. This get's the banged up and jealous Coor a bit mad at him since he's secretly in love with her. We later in the movie again have a fight, this time with guns, between Johnny and Coor with Coor again getting the worst of it with a bullet between his eyes.The movie then degenerates into a free-for-all shoot em up between the Grimes gang and the General's staff. We get to see the entire town of Rio Hondo is depopulated of it's citizens in the process. Notah on his way to town to have it out with Johnny has his pregnant squaw White Fawn, Perla Crista, go to bat for him but ends up getting batted herself, by someone else. Later a member of the tribe Koh To, Louis Rivera, goes after Notah to stop and kill him. Koh To came to the conclusion that he's completely out of his head and will only bring death and destruction on the Comanche nation with his insane actions.White Fawn ambushes Koh To by sticking a knife in his back and then tries to finish him off by having her horse stomp him to death. It then that Koh comes back to life and unseats the shrieking and hysterical White Fawn stabbing and killing her as he himself slowly bleed to death from the stab wound. This whole scene is accommodated with some of the wildest and ear-splitting cries and yells that, if the sound on the TV isn't turned down. The screams can easily damage and burst your eardrums.Facing off in an almost deserted Rio Hondo Johnny and Notah have it out with johnny coming out the winner. Then as the movie ends Johnny plans to marry, a crazy about him and his light brown eyes, Kelly as he leads his people the Comanches back to their reservation to life of peace and harmony with the White Man.More then worthy to be featured on the Mystery Science 3000 bad movie program "White Comanche" is undoubtedly one of the best bad movies you'll ever see. Johnny Moon is hilarious by being targeted by everyone for crimes that he didn't commit. Even a little wimpy nerd turned bounty hunter like Carter, Victor Israel, trying to kill him who in return ends up almost shooting himself, before sheriff Logan gunned him down.