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!
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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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and effortless.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Feb 20267/10
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” (Wayne) and his reluctant friend manage to capture a recognition banner from the Indians and so armed with a wagon load of rifles - without firing pins, of course - head off in search of their secret headquarters. When they arrive at a large hacienda in a well protected valley, they encounter the wheelchair bound mastermind of the operation “Gralle” (Nehemiah Persoff), his daughter “Pilar” (Ina Balin) and their chief henchman “Amelung” (Michael Ankara) and hope they can pass as potential suppliers. Unfortunately for the pair, she recognised “Jake” from a previous meeting when he was wearing his star - but she also quite likes “Regret” so is she going to turn them in to her ruthless father or might she be ruled by her heart instead? I thought the unlikely partnership betw
Read the whole review on TMDB - drystyxon TMDB · Apr 20239/10
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 always finds him. Ina Balin plays the love interest for Regret. She becomes the "guide" into Hell late into the film. She has two helpers, played by Michael Ansara and Richard Devon. At the time this was made, Ansara was playing honorable characters and Devon less honorable characters, so a "switch" was made on their roles in this film. Ansara plays a sadist even worse than Persoff's devil. Lee Marvin gets a high billing, but has a role that would normally be about 12th billing. The wit and charm of this Western really makes it a semi classic. It has the greatest of the famous Duke lines: "Don't make a habit of saying that too often, and once more will be too often". That lines sticks out among the great lines of his films as the coolest. The protagonists begin with Jake ar
Read the whole review on TMDB - Dark Jedion TMDB · Sep 20147/10
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. John Wayne plays his classical slightly grumpy, all honest, tough guy that I really like. I remember one of my greatest disappointments as a kid was when John Wayne played a character that actually turned out to be the bad guy at the end. On top of everything he died at the end! I was so pissed off, almost traumatized. The story is pretty much what the book blurb says. Nothing fancy. There is a pretty lady thrown in of course although it is not John Wayne who gets her at the end, or even aspires to get her, but the gambler, Paul Regret, who, not surprisingly, turns out to be one of the good guys. The story holds together pretty well and there are of course plenty of opportunities for both fist-fights and gun-fights. The gun-fight are where it turns a bit silly though. T
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Cast
- John WayneJake Cutter
- Stuart WhitmanPaul Regret
- Ina BalinPilar Graile
- Nehemiah PersoffGraile
- Lee MarvinCrow
- Michael AnsaraAmelung
- Patrick WayneTobe (Texas Ranger)
- Bruce CabotMaj. Henry (Ranger CO)
- Joan O'BrienMelinda Marshall
- Jack ElamHorseface (Comanchero)
Crew
- Michael CurtizDirector
- James Edward GrantScreenplay
- Clair HuffakerScreenplay
- Paul WellmanNovel
- William H. ClothierDirector of Photography
- Elmer BernsteinOriginal Music Composer
- Louis R. LoefflerEditor
- George ShermanProducer
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