Thursday, 5 March 2015

Remaking a remake

Last of the Comanches (1953)

Directed by Andre de Toth this film, which is a transplanted remake of Sahara (1943), stars Broderick Crawford and Barbara Hale. Six US Cavalry survivors of a massacre pick up a group of civilians and hide out from Comanches on the war path.

While this film maybe a remake (of what seems to be a remake itself) it throws nearly every genre cliché there is at the screen. We may end up with a deeply average film but in it's favour it does have a positive Native American character and keeps events moving along at a brisk pace. Really the script could have done with more depth but for a short Western this is not a bad film.


3/5

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