Product Details

• Actors: William Shatner, Joseph Cotten
• Directors: Gilbert Kay
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Miracle Pictures
• DVD Release Date: June 6, 1978
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00020FUYE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #225,089 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

White Comanche: Half-breed brothers battle themselves and the bad guys to a rugged climax!

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars William Shatner as a Comanche?, January 14, 2005

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T O'Brien (Chicago, Il United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Comanche (DVD)

Have you ever wanted to see Star Trek star William Shatner as an Indian? If so, this is the movie for you. Shatner plays Johnny and Notah Moon, two half-breed twin brothers; their father was white, their mother a Comanche. Johnny is your average two-bit gunman while Notah is the leader of a group of renegade Comanches who have left their reservation. After years of fighting, the brothers decide to meet in Rio Hondo, a small Texas town ravaged by two rich landowners. They know that when they do meet, one of them will die. This movie was made on a small budget, which is quite obvious, and made during the peak of Star Trek's popularity. If you're a fan of the show or Shatner I recommend this movie, but at certain points, it is unintentionally bad.

William Shatner's performance as Johnny is pretty decent, but his role as the peyote-smoking, murderous Notah is laughable. To look and sound like an Indian, Shatner speaks in a slow gruff voice and wears a headband and war paint. Joseph Cotten plays Logan, the sheriff of Rio Hondo who tries to keep his town as peaceful as possible. White Comanche also stars Rosanna Yanni as Kelly, the saloon girl, Perla Cristal as White Fawn, Notah's squaw, Vida Molina and Luis Prendes as Garcia and Grimes, the two warring landowners. The copy of the movie I saw was pretty brutal, washed out colors, horrible tracking, so beware when buying this movie. For a western with dual roles by William Shatner, check out White Comanche!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Brothers keeper, November 10, 2005

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Dorian Marcus (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Comanche (DVD)

This is a Story Written by Robert I Holt and the Famous Frank Gruber who gave us Stories such as "BROKEN LANCE" AND "BIG LAND" and many others.This story is about a family of twin brothers born to White Father and an Indian Mother.One grew up in town yet respected the Indian Values and the other with the indian's but gone wild,Both played by William Shatner.Only diffrence to tell them apart was by the colour of their eyes,one with black eyes was called Notha killing and plundering and living wild with his renegade tribe, while other was of blue eyes called Johnny Moon, always getting mistaken,punished , beaten up for the crimes of the other .Till one day he could stand no more so he asked Notha for a showdown to finish this once for all in the town of Rio Hondo where the sheriff Logan played by Joseph Cotten.It is a Battle bitween Good and and the one gone astray.William Shatner acted very well in this one as always but this movie lost the grip and became a routine half way down.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Has what it takes to be Camp Classic, December 25, 2008

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A piano teacher "Piano teacher" (Reading, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: White Comanche (DVD)

MST 3000 and Ed Wood revivals prove there is a market for astoundingly bad movies, and that is where this one should be categorized. Totally out of the league of Shatner's "pro" work, or real westerns for that matter. It apparently was a throw-away, purely for the foreign market (note the excessive violence). What does it offer the howler devotee? Let's try to list it: 1) Awesome script. (The sheriff had better not interfere while I fight with myself.) 2) Leering, clownish supporting cast. 3) Horseback riding to mood music from a Vegas floor-show band. 4) A couple of pompous Omega-Glory style speeches delivered by Shatner standing on a mountain, with Sun records tape echo. 5) Outdoors dialog all dubbed in from sessions taped in a small, hard-paneled room. Some Spanish actors apparently redubbed from American stand-ins. 6) Shatner's Texas accent vacillates between Sacramento and Belfast Ireland. 7) Bar-fight destroys all the furniture, then the lawman orders the surviver, "sit down!" 8) Horses continually skittish, veering to one side while trying to walk forward, you would swear they are embarrassed to be filmed. 9) Horse rides into the middle of the frame and disappears, turns out he walked behind a large mirror sitting in front of the old hotel, attempt at Hitchcock cinematography? 10) Shatner, all posing and dramatic pauses, on screen for the whole blasted thing - Friends, our family hasn't laughed so hard since we saw Airplane for the first time. Get out your credit card right now; you won't be disappointed.