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Friday, April 10, 2026

White Comanche (1968)

Director Jos? Briz M?ndez
Rating Rating
MPAA G
Run Time 93 min
Color Color
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Sound Mono
Producer Producciones Cinematogr?ficas A.B.
Country: USA
Genre: Western
Plot Synopsis

William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.

Quotes

Sheriff Logan: For someone who's trying to live like a white man, you're sure turning out to be one hell of a Comanche!

Filming Locations

Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain

Estudios Roma, Madrid, Spain
(Studio)

Manzanares el Real, Madrid, Spain

Filmed in Spain on a miniscule budget while William Shatner was on hiatus from playing Captain Kirk on Star Trek (1966), this film features him playing the dual role of half-breed twin brothers in the Old West.

This film is listed among The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE? MOVIE GUIDE.

Normally hairy-chested William Shatner was forced to subject himself to a complete body waxing before appearing buffed and shirtless before the camera.

Continuity

In the duel on horseback between Johnny and Notah, Johnny rides a black horse and Notah is on a brown horse. After it's over, the wounded Johnny rides into view and falls off a brown horse. Then, when it's time to lead the Comanche back to the reservation, he's back on a black horse again.

The White Fawn and Kah To fight takes place in a sandy dry area. When Johnny Moon finds them the ground cover is green and there is a stream running through where they are laying.

When the creepy bounty hunter tries to bushwhack Johnny outside the saloon, Johnny kills him, supposedly with his pistol as both are falling back, before he even pulls it from the holster.

When Johnny is shown in the second-story window from the front, he holds his gun at his hip. From the rear, he is holding his gun up by this face.



Revealing mistakes

When Johnny kills the two men about to do the hanging, he fires two shots, and with each shot, one of the men falls dead. However, the first shot is seen and heard to go off when the gun is still pointing at the ground.



Miscellaneous

When Joseph Cotten walks out of the saloon, you can see extras (a couple) waiting for him to walk into the scene and then they start walking.

When the general gets on his horse, an extra is waiting to walk.



Character error

The day after being dragged from a stagecoach and raped, neither Kelly nor any woman, would ride out of town and the safety of her hotel ALONE to bathe in a watering hole.

Nothing in Shatner's wardrobe, makeup or diction in either role suggests the characters' half-Comanche lineage. He would have been more authentic as Brother Silas in the Da Vinci Code.