or what I watched this week.
White Comanche
William Shatner as half-breed Comanche twins. Isn’t that sentence enough to make you want to see this? It did me.
Unfortunately, what we get is a cheap Spanish (a paella western?) production that not only wastes the talents of Shatner (in his prime between seasons of Star Trek) but those of Joseph Cotton as well.
The story is a simple one – good twin, bad twin, only one will live to see the end credits. The film isn’t helped by a DVD that has obviously been made from a video master and not just any video but one that’s been chewed up in several places. There also seems to be something wrong with the score, it sound like it’s a replacement not the original as it doesn’t fit with the onscreen action, sometimes going for comedy in dramatic moments. It’s either the wrong music or one of worst score I’ve ever heard.
On the plus side Shat’s looks good in cowboy gear (although less convincing as the bad brother in Indian getup) and it’s a shame he never got a better chance to show what he could really do in a western.
The American West of John Ford
This was on the same disc as White Comanche and came as a nice bonus as the front cover only lists it as The American West and I’d assumed it was just another old western (there are four films on the disc in total).
