Comanche
- Year:
- 1956
- 87 min
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COMANCHE:
#Out on the prairie they tell a tale
#Jim Read was riding the Comanche
trail
#He beat Art Downey quick
to the draw
#He obeyed the law so he could not fail
#A man is as good as his word,
#as good as his word as he
#And if he is as good has his word
#That's good enough for me
to keep
#Or else, he never could fall sleep
#He'll keep his promise
as best he knows
#And what he sows, so shall
he reap
#A man is as good as his word,
#as good as his word as he
#And if he is as good as his word
#He's good enough for me
Why don't you buy it?
The hair of the doll. Look!
It is real.
From the scalps of the Comanches.
Give me my doll! My doll. It's mine.
Go!
My God! Comanches!
Comanches!
Medicine arrow, guard this
this woman well.
I will come for it later.
Go! Go!
Maybe there's a way
to make a deal?
A rescue, perhaps? I have money.
I will pay you.
Plenty money. Plenty gold.
Many Comanche scalps.
How many times Huarte
Rosa get $50?
You know my name?
It is wise to know the name
of those who still
collect gold for Comanche scalps.
Don't shoot me!
Many soldiers coming!
Hold! They have crossed into
the United States.
Comanches!
Get the scalps out of the wagon.
Hurry it up!
Burn them!
Burn them.
Untie them!
Let them go.
Give them horses.
the their wagon.
The Mexicans are enemies
but white eyes are worse.
For each Comanche scalp,
take ten of theirs!
Why didn't you save them scalps?
I was saving my own!
We have company.
Coming fast.
Comanches?
You don't see Comanches until
they're on top of you.
- Any patrols out?
- No, Mr. Read. Just us.
Something is spooking
those riders.
We better wait and see.
It's Art Downey and his bunch.
- Friends of yours?
- Not exactly.
- What's you're hurry, Downey?
- Comanches.
They jumped us.
They got our wagons.
What are you doing in Indian
territory?
Hunting buffalo.
No law against that.
There ain't no law here at all.
That's right! We're west of the law.
There's the law of the scalping knife.
You know better than to rile
Comanches.
I'd like to rile them real good.!
Peters and Flanagan.
- How'd they get away?
- Thought they was dead for sure.
There we were, tied spread-eagle
to them wagon wheels
and them savages putting
brush around my legs ...
One Comanche looked
like the boss ...
Quanah?
Whoever it was,
told them to let us go.
Never seen an Indian with
a face like his.
I felt his eyes cutting right
through me.
They gave us horses and
turned us loose.
Quanah is trying to
say something.
I know what I'd like
to tell him!
I know, Downey.
You've made a career out
of Indian hating.
Now, I'm telling you: you stay
out of this territory.
Let's escort them to camp, French.
Hold on, Read.
Ain't you gonna try and get
out wagons back?
get 'em back.
Read.
Are you really aiming to keep me
out of Indian territory?
First, you had me kicked off
the scouts, and now ...
You were no good, Downey,
and you know it.
They say you're prettty good
with a gun, Read.
- Well, just how good?
- I manage to stay alive.
I asked ya a question, Read.
How good?
That's your gamble!
At one time I would have
called and drawn.
But here ...
Here, I say you're an Indian lover
not fit to be around whites.
Nobody moves.
- Just who are you, soldierboy?
- Second Lt. John French.
Now move, or you're all
under military arrest.
All right, soldierboy.
I be seeing you, Read.
You probably will.
Why don't you two ride out and see if you
can save any scalps from those wagons?
Well, there's headquarters.
The general will probably be waiting.
Well, thanks for everything French.
Don't forget, you're on
Downey's list, now.
Thanks. I'll remember.
- How do you you?
- You got here fast.
You said it was
urgent, General.
- We cut across the staked plains.
- With Comanches loose?
We traveled by night, mostly.
Comanches hole up at night.
- It's a bad medicine for them.
- What's the trouble, sir?
- Everything happens at once.
Comanches are raiding
into Mexico, again.
John Ward, Indian Bureau chief
is here from Washington.
Senor Gonzalez, Mexican
embassy.
I don't, but he has the power.
Big medicine, huh?
Let's see just how big!
We signed a peace
treaty in 1848,
which terminated the hostilities
with Mexico.
In 1853, through the Gadsden
Purchase,
we paid $10 Million for parts
of this territory,
and established our borders.
These treaties, guaranteed
that we would stop the
ferocious Comanche raids into Mexico
and return all captives
and property.
to stay out here
until this is accomplished.
If the comanches don't come in peacefully,
we're going to make them.
There are thousands of Comanches.
Who's going to tell 'em?
- You.
- I don't think so.
You take Army pay, don't you?
As a scout, not as a political.
Read, Gen. Miles, rates you
as the best man on the plains.
we took over the territory.
Washington ... the whole nation
want them stopped.
It's preposterous, this Mexican and
Comanche carnage,
should go on forever.
It's been happening for over
200 years now!
Senor Read is correct.
This hatred of the Comanches
and my people is ancient.
no one in truth can
say when it began.
When the Spaniards first
explored here
around 1707, they were
received with open arms.
had some tribal belief
that the white man
come from the East
It would be something
special, almost a god.
Well, the white man came and he
proved to be really special, all right!
They discovered silver and forced
the Indians at gun point,
to work in mines for them.
It was slave labor, paid for
with beatings, brutality
and death, at the whims
of the overseers.
The Comanches got sick
of that. They rebelled.
they could find.
By the time the Comanches,
Navajos and Pueblos
had avenged themselves,
There wasn't much left in the
settlements of Pueblo and Taos.
There wasn't much left
of people, either
with all the torture
and mutilation.
So the, the Spaniards
passed a law,
offering a bounty for every
Comanche scalp.
Ranging from $25 to
$100 a scalp.
The $100 was for the warriors.
you got $50 for a squaw
and $25 for a baby,
the Papoose.
Correction, sir.
Since our Independence,
the Mexican government
has revoked it.
No longer will Mexico pay for the
scalp of the Comanche.
Your government is to be
complimented, Senor,
but renegades on both sides
of the border got rich.
They made big business out of
hunting down Comanches.
Looking for scalps, like
animals for their pelts.
Once they staged a big fiesta
and invited the Indians.
More than 400 came.
Men, women and children.
And they massacred them
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