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Comanche StationThe seventh, last and probably bleakest of the memorable Boetticher-Scott westerns made during the 1950s. Kennedy's screenplay typically provides a few moments of wry humour, but the story of Cody (Scott) relentlessly searching for his wife, abducted by Comanche Indians 10 years previously, darkens as it progresses. Unable to find her, he rescues other women. Having found Mrs Lowe (Gates), he heads for home, but their journey is interrupted in classic form (compare especially The Tall T) by three reward-hungry outlaws. The confrontation is not so much between good and evil as between moral rectitude and base instinct. Tight, menacing, sombre - a minor masterpiece.
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