Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Dalbert Pringle (Yep. May contain spoilers) OK - I ask you - Are 2 William Shatners (teamed up together in a single movie) better than one William Shatner?Well, without even the slightest bit of hesitation, I'd confidently answer - No way, Jose. 2 are not better than one, as is so plainly evident here in White Comanche. (Did they ever attempt this sort of duplication nonsense with Shatner in Star Trek?) As I'm sure everyone is aware - Shatner played dual roles in White Comanche. And, yep, it was the predictably stale tale of "good boy/bad boy" here, as well. And even though these identical, half-breed, twin brothers may have been at total odds with each other and hung out on different sides of the tracks (so to speak), it became clearly evident, right off the bat, that when it came to their choice of jeans that these 2 brothers obviously shopped at the same bargain-basement outpost for style and brand. (This, you can well-imagine, cut down, big-time, on any repeated wardrobe changes for Shatner throughout the story.) Featuring a decidedly "Jazz" soundtrack, White Comanche, with its preposterous violence, and its pure slapstick rape scene, contained every single Western-movie cliché (imaginable) in the book. In fact, White Comanche was so utterly disappointing at times that it was almost enough to turn one right off the genre of Westerns, once and for all.Veteran actor, Joseph Cotten, as Sheriff Logan (Rio Hondo's pathetically useless law-enforcer), looked bored and tired in his role. Put quite plainly, Cotten's less-than-fascinating performance as Deputy Dawg could only be best described as nothing short of a total "phone in". Tsk-Tsk on Joseph Cotten.If nothing else, White Comanche featured some really hilarious stunts. Like, for instance, when "good" twin (Johnny Moon) jumped off a 40 foot cliff to escape the wrath of some of the General's henchmen, he landed squarely in amongst a tangle of treacherous looking bushes. Certain that Johhny must now be punctured and mangled to pieces by the many sharp branches, he, literally, walked away from this ordeal completely unscratched. (Ha! - What a hoot!) When it came to shoot-outs in White Comanche, it seemed that being shot straight through the forehead (dead center, of course) was, undoubtedly, the most popular way of all to die. And if that wasn't demented enough, the male actors (who were the Comanche braves) totally killed me, wearing the dumbest looking, most ill-fitting wigs that I've ever seen.P.S.Try watching White Comanche in black and white. I certainly found it more suitable when viewed this way, rather than in color.

FightingWesterner Halfbreed Comanche (William Shatner) holes up in the town of Rio Hondo (How crack pot is that?) waiting for a showdown with his renegade peyote-munching twin brother while dodging bounty killers and still having time to get involved in a local land dispute between two angry bigwigs.Filmed during a Star Trek summer hiatus, this is Shatner's only foray into the European western genre.White Comanche is extremely low budget fun, though there's plenty of ridiculousness, including the final showdown between the two brothers that occurs without the benefit of split-screen technology and the canned jazz score.Joseph Cotten gets an honorable mention for being the best actor in the movie.

funkyfry The temptation to make weak and obvious jokes about this film is simply too strong for me to resist.... but the punchlines I'd come up with couldn't be as much of a joke as this movie itself. A sad Spanish production that somehow managed to wrangle movie icon Joseph Cotten and rising camp icon William Shatner into a hackneyed film about a death feud between twin "Commanche" brothers. Yes, we are supposed to believe that William Shatner of all people is half white man and half native American, and nothing in Shatner's bag of overstated expressions and mannerisms is going to help much in the matter. One of the brothers wants to live in peace as a white man, but he's continually being mistaken for his brother who still lives to rob and kill on the edges of civilization (while continually popping peyote buttons, which might explain the acting). Hilariously, the film is so naive that it expects us to respect the white-bread Shatner's wishes that his brother and the other Commanches would go back to the reservation where they will have some kind of idyllic life according to him.The physical aspects of this production are embarrassing. There's actually some attempt by the director to bring visual nuance to the film, such as an interesting shot of a man disappearing from the frame which is revealed to be a mirror. But even the unfortunate director, Jose Briz Mendez, is undone in his ambition by the rock-bottom nature of everything associated with the film. The actors in the film are generally terrible, and all of the dialog is of course dubbed. There's a lack of scope to everything, as if the director was constantly aware that moving the camera in one direction or another would reveal unfinished parts of the set. In the end of the movie the good Shatner is supposed to be settling down with his generic showgirl girlfriend in this town, but we really can't imagine anyone wanting to live in such an ugly place for more than 5 minutes.The production is so incompetent and lazy that when we start to see the clichéd "vultures overhead" towards the end of the movie, they sound exactly like crows. You see this vulture in the sky and then there's a voice going "Ca Ca Ca!". What's worse is that they didn't even bother to use an actual crow -- it's just some guy making animal noises dubbed onto the soundtrack. These people went to the Bert I. Gordon school of post-dubbing apparently.It's just a horrible, rotten movie.... oh shoot I didn't mention that Joseph Cotten is in it. How Cotten ended up in so many bad movies around this time in his career is really difficult to understand. It actually fills me with sadness to see this great actor, who had been a leading man for Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, reduced to being the nominal "star presence" in a pathetic and pointless film like this one, which doesn't even have the class that Mario Bava could bring to some of his other European films. There's no excuse for this movie -- if it had been a TV pilot, the show would never have been picked up. To expect people to actually pay money for a ticket to this mess is almost criminal. I was able to survive and even enjoy the experience thanks to 4 pints of Stone IPA.

bkoganbing It's a good thing that Star Trek prime became such a cult item. I would hate to think that William Shatner would have his career judged by this monstrosity of a western.It's probably well that critics remember that at the time this film was done, Star Trek was not the big cult item it became. It was an ambitious science fiction show in its first run that drew a loyal steady audience that NBC decided to cancel after three years. It's fan base grew in syndication and THEN Star Trek became an industry unto itself.So William Shatner in accepting this part had no idea what his future had in store for him. I think if he had he wouldn't have done this film.It's just plain terrible. It's poorly dubbed, it's music score is the worst I've heard for a western since The Outlaw, the acting is terrible and the plot line ridiculous.Shatner plays twin brothers who are from an anglo father and a comanche mother. One of them identifies with the whites and the other the Indians. Come to think of it there was an episode in Star Trek prime where the transporter divided Captain Kirk into a good and evil self. That one was far better done than this film.I'm sure Shatner might have thought he would go the way of Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson in spaghetti westerns. But I think he knew early on what a dog this film was and he overacts outrageously. Especially as his Indian self. Joseph Cotten is around for this also and he looks like he misses those good old days with Orson Welles.Just think when Bill Shatner did Comanche blanco he had no idea that his immortality was already sealed.