Stars: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Lee Marvin, Rock Hudson

Director: Michael Curtiz

Summary: A double pack featuring 'The Comancheros' which is the story of a Texas Ranger whose assignment is to stop a band of out-laws who are supplying guns to the Indians. Based on the novel by Paul I. Wellman and 'The Undefeated' which is the story of two former colonels, one Union, the other Confederate, become allies after one of them is captured and held for ransom by a corrupt Mexican general.

John Wayne stars in this double bill of classic Westerns. In THE COMANCHEROS, Wayne plays a Texas Ranger assigned to bring an arms-running gang to justice. Matters are complicated when the Duke wanders into an area controlled by the Comancheros, a group of Anglos aiding the warring Comanche Indians. In THE UNDEFEATED, a former Union colonel (Wayne) and a former Confederate colonel (Rock Hudson) lead expeditions to Mexico in post-Civil War America. Along the way the two former enemies must put aside their differences and band together to deal with a threatening Mexican general.

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This is a John Wayne Western double-bill featuring The Comancheros(1961) and The Undefeated(1969).

Nobody made a fuss about The Comancheroswhen it came out, yet it has proved to be among the most enduringly entertaining of John Wayne's later Westerns. The Duke, just beginning to crease and thicken toward Rooster Cogburn proportions, plays a veteran Texas Ranger named Jake Cutter who joins forces with a New Orleans dandy (Stuart Whitman) to subdue rampaging Indians and the evil white men behind their uprising.

The Comancheroswas the last credit for Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), who, ravaged by cancer, ceded much of the direction to Wayne (uncredited) and action specialist Cliff Lyons. With support from Wayne stalwarts James Edward Grant (co-screenplay) and William Clothier (camera), the first of many rousing Elmer Bernstein scores for a Wayne picture and a big, flavourful cast including Lee Marvin (the once and future Liberty Valance), Nehemiah Persoff, Bruce Cabot, and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (in his last movie), they made a broad, cheerfully bloodthirsty adventure movie for red-meat-eating audiences of all ages.

In The UndefeatedWayne and Rock Hudson each play a Civil War commander who, after the ceasefire, lead a community of folks into Mexico to make a fresh start. Hudson is a Southern gentleman; Wayne commanded the Yankee cavalry at Shiloh, where Hudson's brother died. Nevertheless, Rock, with his extended family, and Duke, with his troop of cowboys and 3,000 horses to sell to Emperor Maximilian, soon join forces to outgun banditos and beam paternally over the budding romance between their respective daughter and son. Lingering North-South animosities are celebrated in an obligatory communal fistfight, and the showdown with both Maximilian's lancers and the rebel Juaristas is disconcertingly perfunctory. --Richard T Jameson

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailers, Scene Access, Interactive Menus
Subtitles:	Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish
Year:	1961
Release Date:	June 2, 2003
Runtime:	217 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	23519 D V D
Keywords:	Double, Pack, Wide, Screen, Comancheros, Undefeated, Westerns
Genre:	Westerns