Comancheros (1961) D: Michael Curtiz. Excellent Score by Elmer Bernstein. I don't know how this one slipped through my John Wayne watching. Duke is a Texas Ranger sent to get fugitive Stuart Whitman, an affable guy who shot a judge's son in a duel. Lee Marvin shows up early as a villain with the energy of a star he would become. The plot is a group of white men that team up with Comanches Indians for no good. Plenty of Monument Valley scenery and enough pretty women for the lighter moments. Whitman doesn't wither next to Wayne which says a lot about his underused screen persona.
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