Comanche blanco (1968)

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Stars William Shatner in TWO roles.

Need I say more?

Joseph Cotten does a decent job though. 8 years 2 months ago
Siskoid
In between seasons of Star Trek, William Shatner went off to Spain to do White Comanche, which this Trekkie can't help but see as a combination of Trek's The Enemy Within and The Paradise Syndrome (the one where Kirk is split into good and evil halves, and the one where he thinks he's a Native America - I wanted to shout "I AM KIROK!" at various points). Shatner plays twin brothers, each embracing a different half of their exogamous natures - one the white cowboy, the other the Comanche brave - bringing his brand of melodramatic delivery to both parts. We don't see the title villain much, and that's a mercy because he's a ludicrous looking and sounding character, high on peyote buttons and irredeemably evil. This could be enjoyed as camp, but Kirok rapes a woman in an early scene, and it's all too dour to be much fun. Joseph Cotten is a weary sheriff who involves White Cowboy in a violent land grab plot while we wait for the unrelated showdown between brothers - pretentiously described as one man fighting his own dark soul - so it's really as if two films crashed into one another, and the result was scored by an inappropriate jazz band. It has its moments, but it's more or less a curiosity filled with western clichés, shot almost indistinguishably like a Star Trek episode. 4 years 11 months ago