Comanche Territory (1950)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

George Sherman

Writers:

Oscar Brodney (screenplay)
Lewis Meltzer (screenplay)

Release Date:

1 May 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians...

Plot Keywords:

Silver | Native American | Miner | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Maureen O'Hara	...	Katie Howard
Macdonald Carey	...	James Bowie
Will Geer	...	Dan'l Seeger
Charles Drake	...	Stacey Howard
Pedro de Cordoba	...	Quisima
Ian MacDonald	...	Walsh
Rick Vallin	...	Pakanah
Parley Baer	...	Boozer, the Bartender
James Best	...	Sam
Edmund Cobb	...	Ed
Glenn Strange	...	Big Joe

Runtime:

76 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:K-12 | West Germany:12 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Big Park, Sedona, Arizona, USA

Company:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Trivia:

Debut of Parley Baer.

Quotes:

Quisima: If Comanches must die, they will die like men... but never give up sacred soil of their fathers.

Thar's silver in that thar Comanche Territory

Famous frontiersman Jim Bowie is sent by President Andrew Jackson to make sure the terms of a treaty with the Comanche is being carried out. But another emissary has been bushwacked and the Comanches never got the new treaty. It's up to Jim with his trusty knife to investigate what's going on. Nefarious villains are after the silver that's on the Comanche land.

Of all the American frontier characters in our history, Jim Bowie has had the biggest whitewash. In real life this man was a slavetrader, a land swindler and all around frontier scoundrel. The knife he is credited with inventing was made probably to his specifications, but by someone else. He had a certain amount of charm as MacDonald Carey plays him here with, but definitely was not of good character.

Andy Jackson might have bought a slave or three for the Hermitage from Jim Bowie, but never would have sent him on a diplomatic mission. And the Comanches who were not a blip on the American frontier radar yet, would not have made a deal with Jackson if they heard anything about what happened to the Cherokee.

Maureen O'Hara got to create another redheaded spitfire character that she was doing in picture after picture at this point of her career. Will Geer as the other Jackson emissary probably has the best part in this film.

Average Hollywood western which has absolutely nothing to do with reality. But the kiddies might like it.