Comanche Station is a modest movie. It lacks the scope of the big Hollywood Westerns of its time and the splashy zaniness of the Spaghetti Westerns that were to burst onto the scene later in the decade. What it does have is mostly solid performances (Scott in particular does good work here), a lean, economical script and a few stand-out sequences. For instance, I particularly liked the film's opening, a nearly wordless sequence in which Scott's character interacts with a tribe of Indians. A ransomed or kidnapped wife is a recurring element in Boetticher/Scott Westerns, but this movie brings some freshness to that old storyline.Bottom Line: A better-than-average Western. Worth your time.

This film is one of the worst westerns I have ever seen.First of all,commanches with Mohawk haircuts!This film is very racist to the commanche,it contains almost every single stereotype I have seen in western films.I have seen bad westerns before but at least the mistakes they make in them are funny,this film is just boring all the way through. What ever you do do NOT buy this if you want to buy a good Technicolor western buy broken arrow,I will fight no more forever,Tomahawk/the battle at Powder river,the searchers,Run of the arrow and centennial is a great western TV series.The only good thing about this film is the setting but you don't normally watch a film just for the setting.If you can find this film on the internet for free watch it if your really bored and have nothing else to do.

Gaining the release of a rich white woman being held hostage by Comanches proves to be fairly easy for Ex-Cavalry officer Randolph Scott. The hard part is getting her back home with his sleazy former subordinate Claude Akins and Akins' dim-witted partners tagging along, especially since they know what the woman's husband is willing to pay for her return, or that of her body!Another great film directed by Bud Boetticher, what strikes me most about this and others by Boetticher is the wonderful use of the widescreen image. Not only does every frame of the picture look like a master painting, they are also so perfectly balanced. Not an inch of Cinemascope is wasted.The script by Burt Kennedy bears a passing resemblance to his earlier one for Ride Lonesome. Look hard and you'll notice the burnt remains of that film's memorable "hanging tree" standing in the middle of a large pond!

This perfect distillation of the Western is shown very frequently on British TV.It's difficult to add anything to the interesting and detailed reviews already here. This movie is perfect! If proof were needed in court that a perfect movie can be made in under 80 minutes, this is it. To the long list of items this is also a very touching story; parts of it are heartbreaking.I'd like to raise an aspect that isn't often explored: the music. Running through the movie is a most lovely theme-for example during the travelling sequences along the river and through the meadows. I have spotted this theme in one or two other films; I can cite "Guns of Fort Petticoat". I have never identified whether it is by Mischa Bakaleinikov (the stated composer) or whether it is a cue by another composer (the databases do mention other contributors). Can anyone through any light on it?Like many other reviewers I want to visit the locations some day.