As a terrific documentary on this 50th anniversary Blu-ray edition of 1961’s The Comancheros tells us, John Wayne came out of the 1950s looking to make pictures that were less exhausting than The Alamo, the three-hour historical saga he’d just directed and starred in. Yet The Comancheros was filmmaker Michael Curtiz’s last picture; his illness during production forced Wayne to handle much of the directing. The sprawling epic is about a Texas Ranger (Wayne) and his dandified prisoner (S
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