Last of the comanches 1952 cast and crew moviefone. Their empire stretched across parts of the modern states. Taut little b western with a sergeant broderick crawford and his four officers lloyd bridges, being one, lone survivors of an indian attack on a small frontier town, hooking up with a stagecoach with barbara hale the lone female amongst all the men and heading through a desert. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. Dana andrews stars as a frontier scout who hopes to shield his native american friends from the genocidal.
The supporting cast includes ina balin, lee marvin, nehemiah persoff, bruce cabot, jack elam, patrick wayne, and edgar buchanan. Loner cody trades with the comanches to get a white girl released. Death rides a horse cowboy, english, hd, western movie full length free western movies duration. Its 1876 and all the indians are at peace except the comanches lead by black cloud. Gwynne recreates in thrilling detail the bloody 1871 battle that marked the beginning of the end. Last of the comanches released in the uk as the sabre and the arrow is a 1953 american technicolor western film directed by andre detoth, starring broderick crawford, barbara hale, johnny stewart and lloyd bridges. It was filmed in the eastern sierra area of central california near lone pine, california, not far from the foot of mount whitney. Comanche station is the very essence of a great western. And as a director, he got to remake it a decade later as last of the comanches 1953. The film has a theme song a man is as good as his word sung by the lancers. The remnants of a massacred cavalry troop and ragtag group of stagecoach passengers fight for survival against fierce comanches at a desert. Comanches synonyms, comanches pronunciation, comanches translation, english dictionary definition of comanches. Comanche is one of several 1950s westerns sympathetic to the indian point of view. After it was filmed in 1920, only one copy of the movie, which was filmed on highly flammable and easily decomposable silver nitrate film, was.
Dec 16, 2014 loner cody trades with the comanches to get a white girl released. Ten against ten thousand the remnants of a massacred cavalry troop and ragtag group of stagecoach passengers fight for survival against fierce comanches at a desert ruin. The comancheros is a 1961 western deluxe cinemascope color film directed by michael curtiz, based on a 1952 novel of the same name by paul wellman, and starring john wayne and stuart whitman. Last of the comanches 1953 one of the most remarkable war films released during world war ii was columbia pictures desert adventure sahara 1943, which starred humphrey bogart, on loan from warner bros.
Dec 28, 2016 death rides a horse cowboy, english, hd, western movie full length free western movies duration. Watch last of the comanches full movie in hd visit movie 41468 its 1876 and all the indians are at peace except the comanches le. Last of the comanches 1953 was a remake of zoltan kordas sahara 1943, with native. Matt trainor who leads a group of people from arizona. Index status cover scan status 1 cover for 1 issue available. Now the only trouble is to get her home safe and sound. Only three comanche warriors died in that encounter, however the army destroyed over 1,000 of their horses and made a bonfire of their tipis and winter food stores, rendering them unable to survive outside the. Pekka hamalainen writes a revisionist history of the southern plains by arguing that between 17501850 the comanches built a dominant empire in the region. In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, empire of the summer moon, special correspondent s. The war film sahara featured an allmale cast, so the prim stagecoach traveler played by barbara hale in last of the comanches had no equivalent in that movie. Romantic western adventure when a handful of settlers survive an apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of comanche todd, a white man who has lived with the comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men. Last of the comanches 1952 a cavalry sergeant broderick crawford leads soldiers, civilians and an indian johnny stewart on a desert trek. Quanah parker and the rise and fall of the comanches, the most powerful indian tribe in american history by s.
Comanche station is a 1960 american cinemascope eastman color western film directed by budd boetticher and starring randolph scott. Last of the comanches is a 1953 american western film directed by andre detoth and starring broderick crawford, barbara hale, johnny stewart and lloyd. In 1869 the transcontinental railroad was completed, linking the. Last of the comanches 1953 the movie database tmdb.
Last of the comanches is a 1953 american technicolor western film directed by andre detoth, starring broderick crawford, barbara hale, johnny stewart and lloyd bridges. Dec, 2015 last of the comanches 1952 posted by mark franklin on dec, 2015 broderick crawford is sgt. May 20, 2011 quanah parker, considered the greatest comanche chief, was the son of cynthia ann parker, a white pioneer woman kidnapped by a raiding party when she was a little girl. It turns out there is a large reward for the return of the girl, and with the indians on the warpath and the outlaw being an old enemy of codys, things are set for several showdowns. Pinned down by black cloud they send an indian boy who was black clouds prisoner on to the fort while they. Last of the comanches movie posters at movie poster warehouse.
The film is a carboncopy of the 1943 film sahara in a western setting with the soldiers fighting indians with other western movie cliches thrown in. Last of the comanches 1953 was a remake of zoltan kordas sahara 1943, with native americans standing in for the nazi hordes of the original. Hale had been a busy actress since the early 1940s, first as a supporting player at rko in films from the falcon series and, occasionally, more notable movies such as the boy with green. They pick up others en route and keep the comanches at bay from an abandoned mission. Last of the comanches movie posters at movie poster. Many views have been written about my grandfather, quanah parker, the last chief of the comanches, who guided the comanche people at a most perilous time in the history of the tribe. And after witnessing how comanches use a pioneer family for target. A click on the cover leads to the large cover view, a click on the issue number to the issue data. With broderick crawford, barbara hale, johnny stewart, lloyd bridges. Army surprised the last substantial holdout of comanches in palo duro canyon in the texas panhandle. Comanches and their kiowa allies attacked the blockhouse, killed several settlers, and took five hostages, including nineyearold cynthia ann parker, who lived with the comanches for twentyfour years. A click on the cover leads to the large cover view, a.
A cavalry sergeant broderick crawford leads soldiers, civilians and an indian johnny stewart on a desert trek. With an extractive economy based on raiding and trade, the comanches used violence and sophisticated diplomacy to become the center of imperial power and force other empires and peoples to adapt a narrative that flips the standard. Quanah parker was the last chief of the comanches and the son of cynthia. Matt trainor, left with the unenviable task of leading six survivors of his cavalry troop to safety after a massacre in a nearby town of dry buttes. If you like broderick crawford, you will enjoy this film from beginning to end. Comanche station 1960 letterboxd social film discovery. Comanche indians the handbook of texas online texas state. Like him, i was also a chief of my people, having been elected chairman of the comanche tribe in 1976. Six cavalrymen lead a stagecoach to safety after an attack by comanches. Randolph scotts next to last movie and final collaboration with budd boetticher is a more than worthy goodbye. The film belongs to broderick crawford, though, as the cavalry sergeant who must make tough and unpopular decisions when. Last of the comanches 1953 full movie download full hd. Also featured are western film veterans bob steele, guinn big boy williams. Last of the comanches featured one actor who also had appeared in sahara lloyd bridges played one of the tank battalion survivors in that film, as well as the very similar role of one of the cavalrymen in the later western.
In 1869 the transcontinental railroad was completed, linking the industrializing east with. Starring broderick crawford and barbara hale, it gave early parts to lloyd bridges and martin milner. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Were the comanche anything like they are portrayed by. I think i had heard about comanches in a john wayne movie or something. Made on the heels of his superb springfield rifle, last of the comanches is an exercise in the best, most vigorous sense in western action, with brawny pans in the battle scenes, a lead role by the unjustly neglected broderick crawford once a big name, he eventually disappeared into the netherworld of mid20th century tv and some surprisingly michael baylike explosions. In 1875, near durango, mexico, a group of renegade comanche attack a peaceful village and kidnap the daughter of a spanish aristocrat. Last of the comanches 1952 once upon a time in a western. Tonka has even more in common with zorro because it was written and directed by lewis foster, who wrote and directed many episodes of zorro. The film, directed by zoltan korda, was unusual for its international cast and crew and its minimal use of wartime propaganda it told of an american tank platoon joining forces with british. The rise and fall of the comanche empire quanah parker, considered the greatest comanche chief, was the son of cynthia ann parker, a white pioneer woman kidnapped by a. The book does not gloss over the violence, and to us the brutality of being a comanche warrior but it does give you an idea of what the conflict was like in the middle 1800s.
Tonka was released on dvd in 2009 as a disney movie club exclusive. Quanah parker and the rise and fall of the comanches. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. Last of the comanches approved 1h 25min action, adventure, western 1 february 1953 usa the remnants of a massacred cavalry troop and ragtag group of stagecoach passengers fight for survival against fierce comanches at a desert ruin. The disc has no bonus features and the film is presented in fullscreen. He is joined on his way back to the girls husband by an outlaw and his sidekicks. Comanche is a 1956 western film directed by george sherman and starring dana andrews. It was our first new years day in our new adobe on the ridge overlooking the valley of the rio chiquito and the rio grande del rancho. Dec 05, 2016 the remnants of a massacred cavalry troop and ragtag group of stagecoach passengers fight for survival against fierce comanches at a desert ruin.
The remnants of a massacred cavalry troop and ragtag group of stagecoach passengers fight for survival against fierce comanches at a desert ruin. The film is a remake of the 1943 world war ii film sahara, starring humphrey bogart. In the desert they are reinforced by members of a stagecoach and find some water at a deserted mission. During the 1800s, the comanche were probably the most powerful tribe on the north american continent. Parker became the wife of chief peta nocona and the mother of quanah parker, the last great comanche chief. Buttercup dunes, imperial county, california, usa 5 of 5 found this interesting interesting. Reviewed in the united states on january 26, 2012 pretty good remake of sahara1943,turned into a western with broderick crawford in the humphrey bogart part. A member of a native american people formerly ranging over the southern great plains from western kansas to northern texas. Though the last shot inspired applause at the telluride film festival, think. Last of the comanches 1953 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. When black cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left and they head for the nearest fort.
He was half white, the son of a comanche chief and a white woman. Last of the comanches 1952 posted by mark franklin on dec, 2015 broderick crawford is sgt. Based on the columbia movie last of the comanches starring broderick crawford, barbara hale and lloyd bridges. The film was the last of boettichers late 1950s ranown cycle. Trails westward, the saber and the arrow, the sabre and the arrow. A lone rider saves a woman whos been kidnapped by the comanches. Comanches definition of comanches by the free dictionary. The movie poster warehouse best resources of original and vintage movie posters, rare movies posters and memorabilia visit our online retail store movie posters, collectibles, memorabilia, movie memorabilia, poster, posters, collectables, hollywood memorabilia, movie and memorabilia, original movie posters.
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