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Price: $85.00 Prices subject to change.
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304092026
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304092024
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: July 09, 1996
Running Time: 74 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1960-03
Sales Rank: 21813
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"Seems like we been over this before." This line from Comanche Station evokes not only an unspoken mutual history the two primary antagonists share, but also the fact that director Budd Boetticher and screenwriter Burt Kennedy's "Ranown cycle" of classic Westerns represents both the distillation of the Western genre and a droll running commentary upon it. In the six remarkable journey Westerns running from Seven Men from Now in 1956 through this 1960 gem, Randolph Scott is always the hero, a man of few words bearing a legacy of almost unendurable pain and loss. There is always a villain whom strength of character and the rules of the genre game demand that Scott eventually engage in mortal combat--despite the fact that the rascal has a lot of charm, intelligence, and sometimes even scruples to recommend him. There may or may not be Indians, but there will always be a menace lurking in the unrelievedly barren landscape through which the characters make their way, united only by expediency and constantly engaged in discussing the ethical quandary of knowing they're going to try to kill each other sooner or later.
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
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I have always,always remember the wonderful actor Claude Akins..when Randolph Scott would talk to him....Akins repiled..."HELLO!".It's all in his justers in the way he says it.It's a very well done western.Hopefully when it comes out...it will be in WIDESCREEN.I have seen it on TMC..in that format.The TALL "T" is another great SCOTT & RICHARD BOONE western classic.
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I've only seen "Comanche Station" once, on television years ago. Like John Wayne's character Nathan in "The Searchers", Randolph Scott plays a loner for whom honor and duty is everything. And like "The Searchers", it is a powerful film about a solitary man's determination to find his only real connection to the world, in this case his long missing wife. But unlike "The Searchers", the story is much more encapsulated in time and space, which makes the viewer feel he is a part of the journey. The ... Read More
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Columbia Pictures / Ranown Pictures Corporation "COMANCHE STATION" (1960) (73 mins/Eastmancolor/Widescreen) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Starring Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins & Skip Homeier --- Directed by Budd Boetticher and released in March 1960, our story line and film, Loner Cody trades with the Comanches to get a white girl released ... He is joined on his way back to the girl's husband by an outlaw and his sidekicks. It turns out there is a large reward for the return of ... Read More
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All of Bud Boetticher's westerns are superior to many westerns received as classics. I won't mention John Ford's The Searchers or his Calvary Trilogy at all, but Randolph Scott, unlike Wayne, can act; Scott has that vacant, self-absorbed quality in his face, forged in this film and many others onlife styles chiefly underscored by major sensory deprivation. Budd Boetticher removes the conventional dust and the Dance Hall "scenes" and the irritating, endless, comic breaks, as A. Mann did with J. Stewart ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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