1961’s The Comancheros

John Wayne was in such a fertile period in his career when he made The Comancheros—coming off Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo, John Ford’s The Horse Soldiers and Wayne’s own mega-production of The Alamo—that The Comancheros got lost in the shuffle. What intrigues me most about The Comancheros is that it’s the last film of Michael Curtiz, best known for directing Casablanca. Curtiz first began directing movies in 1912 in his native Hungary before moving to America in 1926 and working as