Well just viewed this one again via the Warner Archive print. Its the nicest I have seen the film look. But the film is not so great of course, but I have viewed much worse. Shatner does try to put some soul into his roles, especially the Moon character. The jazzy soundtrack was completely out of place for me.
Rifftrax needs to do this movie.
WE should do it, Rifftrax/MST3K-style. An SWDB podcast commentary.
Yep 
The Db has a bunch of uncredited, some well known like José Jaspe, Diana Lorys, Aldo Sambrell etc. which are not in the film as far as I can see. I’m removing these. If proved otherwise they can be easily added along with the roles.
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I feel as though I was misled. 
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confused it with Bianco Apache sorry… both now in the new layout
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That’s okay because now my life is complete. 
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We write the year 1968. Sergio Leone enters the realm of immortality with his Once Upon a Time in the West, while Captain Kirk becomes embroiled in a hair-raising story dominated by terrible acting, making you wish you were in the vastness of space just to escape the most terrible soundtrack ever heard in a Western . With a cry, You try to escape the terrible nightmare: Scotty, beam me up!
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Has anyone seen the Spanish version of this to confirm whether it has the same music? That jazzy track seemed like a ‘library’ score to me added by the American distributor.
I saw the UK OEG ‘12’ rated DVD which was not in great condition (and at 1:1:33 and not anamorphic so bits scanned off the screen) but was clearly better than the postings above re: some of the American PD releases as none of it was in black and white and the picture was a bit washed out but I’ve seen a lot worse. The sound seemed slightly out of synch throughout - I guess the Warner Archive version is probably the same.
Favourite bits:
- The little boy deciding to walk out in the street in the middle of the gunfight, for no reason at all, to talk to Johnny and then being shot.
- Kelly deciding to go alone into the countryside for a nude swim in a river the day after being raped
- Johnny tells the sheriff he won’t he leaving town but in the next scene is out riding in the countryside
- Johnny confronts Notah with a view to killing him about 10m into the movie but inexplicably says he will instead confront him in 4 days in Rio Hondo, a white town which is hostile to Notah (so why would Notah ever go there)
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- Notah has a very small ‘army’, largely women, for someone intending to eliminate all the whites. Why does White Fawn, who is pregnant, ride after the Indian deserter rather than just waking up Notah who can only be about ten yards away in a tepee?
- When White Fawn and the other Indian kill each over they are in the desert and lie in the sand but when Johnny finds their bodies they are next to a stream and they are lying on green grass
- When Johnny draws against the two gunmen lynching Ellis his first shot goes off into the ground before his gun is properly out of his holster and raised but one of the opponents is hit anyway. Similarly, when Johnny guns down Carter - great Victor Israel cameo - he shoots him falling backwards before he has got his gun out of his holster.
- William Shatner’s constant topless scenes. We even have two William Shatners topless at the same time. I think this was filmed in the Winter of 1967/68. judging from the snow in some shots which is just as well otherwise S would have been badly burnt. In one scene he is chatting about his life story with Rosanna Yanni - his first dialogue scene with her - and he takes his shirt off and sits full length on his bed topless whilst conversing. Seriously!
- The two brothers, one white, one Indian, seem to wear the same blue trousers. Notah also carries a Colt SAR like his brother so i guess the production team was short of both weapons props and trousers. Unlike Execution which used some split screen shots when the brothers were in the same frame, White Comanche never shows the brothers in the same frame. Too expensive to process I guess.
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For background Shatner made this between the second and third series of Star Trek. There was some doubt as to whether Star Trek would be renewed for a third season, due to relatively weak audiences, but its renewal for what turned out to be the final season was announced in March 1968 when they broadcast the last episode of season 2. So, at the time he signed up to make White Comanche, probably late in 1967 for a shoot beginning early in 1968, Shatner did not know whether he still had a job as Captain Kirk.