The Official RAZZIE® Forum : WHITE COMANCHE http://www.razzies.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; The Official RAZZIE® Forum : BEST BAD CABLE MOVIE of the WEEK : WHITE COMANCHE Sat, 18 May 2013 11:35:08 +0000 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:57:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.70 360 www.razzies.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1239 The Official RAZZIE® Forum http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_images/RazzieLogo02.gif http://www.razzies.com/forum/ WHITE COMANCHE : I just paid $5.99 at Fry's... http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=50033#50033 Author: lucy520
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Posted: February 27 2012 at 1:57am

I just paid $5.99 at Fry's for "Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition" (should have been "The Wire Hanger Edition") 2 weeks ago, so I consider this a pretty good price for my RAZZIE movie collection I just started 2 months ago.
 ]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:57:03 +0000 http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=50033#50033 WHITE COMANCHE : This movie I like! http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=49276#49276 Author: cater
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 1:41am

This movie I like!

]]> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:41:09 +0000 http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=49276#49276 WHITE COMANCHE : Normal ... http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=38443#38443 Author: fifth
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Posted: January 22 2011 at 2:51am

Hey,I will definitely give this movie a trial because after reading this much aboutthis movie I am tempted to watch this one. I will post my review after I watchit. I am happy to read about such movies at the Razzie Movie guide. Let mefirst see the White Comanche.

]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:51:18 +0000 http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=38443#38443 WHITE COMANCHE : OOPs, that was "The Andersonville... http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8835#8835 Author: Brierfox
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Posted: September 01 2006 at 4:36pm

OOPs, that was "The Andersonville Trial"  
Shatner recieved an award for this Kraft TV movie, based on the Trials of Confederate officers who oversaw the death of hundreds of Union POWs at Andersonville prison.
]]> Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:36:06 +0000 http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8835#8835 WHITE COMANCHE : How far can a man fall after "The... http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8834#8834 Author: Brierfox
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Posted: September 01 2006 at 4:33pm

How far can a man fall after "The Anderson Trial"? 
 Shatners' excuse was that "Star Trek" didn't pay off untill later and he needed money to pay off debts.   Besides, "camp" and "spageti" westerns were all the rage.  Does everyone forget  that "Batman" was popular on TV at this time?  Shatner didn't sing in this movie, (yhank goodness) but Mr spock recorded a stupid song for Hulabaloo  and appeared on "Laugh-in" as well.  I remember this period all too well man,  everyone was on LSD (Lactic Stupid Drug), smoking maryjane and acting like it was all going to end tomorrow.  So no one tried to do anything seriously for about ten years.  Then when dooms day didn't arrive and the earth continued to spin, people sheepishly started to think about being good actors again.  Shatner started thinking, but never quite got the hang of it. 
]]> Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:33:18 +0000 http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8834#8834 WHITE COMANCHE : My fellow RAZZIE members, if... http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8546#8546 Author: ITbeast
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 8:22am

My fellow RAZZIE members, if you have not checked out the TCM write up on "White Comanche" please do so. The authors "description" of the movie is almost as funny as Head RAZZberry's.


RESPONSE from Head RAZZberry: And the TCM entry also has a postage-stamp-sized PHOTO of The Shat-Man in his Indian make-up as "Notah," the No-Good-Twin-Brother...

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Posted: August 15 2006 at 4:56pm

I have seen this aberration before! It's so bad it makes Shatner's other RAZZIE MOVIE GUIDE title IMPULSE look like "Gone With The Wind!"    ]]> Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:56:56 +0000 http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8538#8538 WHITE COMANCHE : Since I am a big William Shatner... http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8530#8530 Author: ITbeast
Subject: 1239
Posted: August 15 2006 at 8:26am

Since I am a big William Shatner Fan (Bad or Good) I am willing to spend more than a penny (plus the shipping and handling) to get COMANCHE. I've heard such awful things about it, especially in RAZZ's Guide, that I have to experience the punishment myself!!! 

I decided to go for the 43 Cent "upgrade," and get a DVD sealed from the factory. The whole package, with price and shipping & handling, broken down in case anybody's interested:

Item Subtotal:$0.44
Shipping & Handling:$2.59
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Total Before Tax:$3.03
Estimated Tax:$0.00
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Grand Total:$3.03

I just paid $5.99 at Fry's for "Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition" (should have been "The Wire Hanger Edition") 2 weeks ago, so I consider this a pretty good price for my RAZZIE movie collection I just started 2 months ago.

 

]]> Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:26:08 +0000 http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8530#8530 WHITE COMANCHE : THANK GOD he wasn't singing... http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8527#8527 Author: Razzilla
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 2:25am

THANK GOD he wasn't singing in it or it would have been the WORST MOVIE EVER!!!

Response from Head RAZZberry: Technically, he doesn't sing...but he does do that ululating Indian war-whoop!

]]> Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:25:54 +0000 http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8527#8527 WHITE COMANCHE : FROM THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE... http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1239&PID=8473#8473 Author: HeadRAZZBerry
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Posted: August 12 2006 at 4:52am

FROM THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE by Head RAZZberry John Wilson -- available from Amazon.com

 

WHITE COMANCHE (1968/RKO General Pictures)

WHO’S TO BLAME 

CAST: William Shatner (As Twins: Johnny Moon and Notah); Joseph Cotton (Sheriff Logan); Rosanna Yani (Kelly); Bart Barry (Mayor Bolker); Ian Castelli (The Boy); Perla Cristal (White Fawn)     

CREW: Directed by Gilbert Lee Kay (Jose Briz), Written by Robert I. Holt and  Frank Gruber


RAVE REVIEWS 

“A cheap, visually ugly Spanish western…with a morose sincerity… A sagebrush version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.”
     Robert Monell /VideoForum.com 

     “The most electrifying of bad westerns… delivering some of the worst dialogue in movie history.”  Nate Nichols / www.Ooze.com
   
PLOT, WHAT PLOT? 

 If you think William Shatner is one of the great bad actors of our time, then this one’s for you. In WHITE COMANCHE, which he made during hiatus from over-acting on a regular basis as Captain Kirk on TV’s STAR TREK, Shatner gets to ham it up as not one but two characters: Half-breed twin brothers who square off in the old West. 

 Some reviews suggest that this film was shot in about one week – And it certainly seems a credible accusation, given the film’s quality. Even on DVD, the print looks like it was tapped-danced on by the entire U.S. Olympic golf team. Instead of Leo the Lion roaring (or any studio logo) we open with a stock shot of a snowy mountain, with a stock sound effect of a wolf howl under it. Then the music comes up –  If Sheriff Dillon from GUNSMOKE had ever played Vegas, this is what his pit band would’ve sounded like. Finally, a title appears: “Producers’ International Corporation presents…” With this inauspicious a start, we know already what we’re in for. Made in Spain on a budget apparently under 2,317 pesos, WHITE COMANCHE is supposed to be that country’s answer to the so-called Spaghetti Westerns that were all the rage at the time. Think of it as the world’s first Sangria Western. 

  As the main titles end, Shatner is being chased by a band of desperados, determined to string him up from the nearest tree (and they haven’t even seen him in his other role as the Indian half-breed brother, Notah!). Barely escaping with his life, Johnny Moon realizes it must be his half-brother they wanted to hang, and so goes to Notah’s village, entirely populated by Spaniards in dime store Indian wigs. Notah’s wife, who wears the traditional excessive mascara of her people, tells her half-brother-in-law: “There has never been good between you!” To which Moon retorts: “Has there ever been good between Notah and anyone?”

  Suddenly we’re following a stagecoach through a canyon, in which rides a blonde in a 1967 Playboy centerfold hairdo. From the hills above ride a raiding party of Indians, led by Notah – Shatner in the same haircut as Moon, a headband on his forehead, his pale white chest bare, wearing buckskin pants and little booties, with his face streaked with “war paint” that looks like someone at the office attacked him with a bottle of White-Out. He lets out an Indian war whoop (as only Shatner can do an Indian war whoop) and one of the coach passengers intones: “It’s the White Comanche!”

  When Notah gets home from “work,” Johnny is waiting for him with the welcoming remark: “Notah is well-named. His liver is white, like his Yankee father, his heart burns blacker than the skin of his Comanche mother and he’s white-bellied, like his name, the snake!”  Popping a button of Peyote, Notah replies: “Notah’s brother talks like the white man he thinks he is. He is afraid to be Comanche.” The comeback? “Eat the peyote, drug of the devil – Dream your dreams of hate!”

  Obviously, these brothers don’t get along. And how they work out their differences, through 93 minutes of ugga-mugga and broken English dialogue, is the meat-and-potatoes of this film. To accompany Shatner’s name above the title, the producers hired Joseph Cotten  to play the local sheriff. After having started his career with CITIZEN KANE, and skidding down from there to DUEL IN THE SUN and THE OSCAR, Cotten reached his nadir with this role: You can almost smell his disdain for the words the screenwriters put in his mouth.

  Deservedly obscure, and only remembered today because of Shatner’s pricelessly hammy dual performance, WHITE COMANCHE should be Exhibit A if Captain Smirk ever finds himself on trial for over-acting in the first degree.

DIPPY DIALOGUE

Johnny Moon (William Shatner)  after winning a gun-drawing contest: “Next time, don’t eat the peyote. Maybe then you’ll be quick enough!”

CHOICE DVD CHAPTER STOP

The Big Shoot-Out at End of Film: In which Shatner/Johnny challenges Shatner/Notah to a gun duel – And no one can tell which brother is which, until one of them dies.

AVAILABILITY

As a “public domain” title, WHITE COMANCHE is available on VHS and DVD from various video labels, and from Amazon.com for as little as ONE CENT!.  It will be playing on Turner Classic Movies on Wednesday, August 16. 

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