Comanche (1956 film) Quotes

Comanche (1956 film) is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Comanche stopped airing in 1970.

It features Carl Kreuger as producer, Herschel Burke Gilbert in charge of musical score, and Jorge Stahl Jr. as head of cinematography.

Comanche (1956 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Comanche (1956 film) is 87 minutes long. Comanche (1956 film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Dana Andrews as Jim Read, Lowell Gilmore as Commissioner John Ward, Kent Smith as Quanah Parker, Henry Brandon as Black Cloud, and Mike Mazurki as Flat Mouth.

Comanche (1956 film) Quotes

Kent Smith as Quanah Parker

• (Kent Smith) "The Mexicans still collect gold from the government for Comanche scalps. Would you have me treat them as brothers?"
• (Dana Andrews) "They will no longer buy Commanche scalps. I ask you to call the Americans and the Mexicans -- brothers."
• (Kent Smith) "You ask me to be better than my enemies."
• (Dana Andrews) "I ask you to be greater. A great man can grant great favors."

• (Kent Smith) "I do not think of Americans, only of Comanches -- and the children of Comanches -- and the children that will come from those children. The Americans are here. They will stay. We cannot drive them out. They will grow strong while we will not. We must learn from them so that our children will not hunger -- so they will be warm in winter -- so they will strong as the Americans are strong."

• (Kent Smith) "But our numbers do not increase. And the Americans are without number -- they are like weeds -- like drops of rain -- no end to them."
• (Dana Andrews) "The time has come to walk the path of the Americans."
• (Kent Smith) "This has long been on my mind. The Americans are brave. They know many things. We must learn from them -- or the sun will set on us forever."

Dana Andrews as Jim Read

• (Unnamed) "They say you're pretty good with a gun, Read. Now, just how good?"
• (Dana Andrews) "I manage to stay alive."
• (Unnamed) "I asked you a question, Read. How good?"
• (Dana Andrews) "That's your gamble."

• (Unnamed) "You got here fast."
• (Dana Andrews) "You said it was urgent, General, so we cut across the Stake Plains"
• (Unnamed) "With Comanches loose?"
• (Dana Andrews) "We traveled at night, mostly. Comanches hole up at night. It's bad medicine for them."

• (Dana Andrews) "So that's the way it is. Comanches kill Mexicans to get even with the Spanish. And the Mexicans kill Comanche in revenge for that. It's become a way of life."
• (Lowell Gilmore) "I can see how it began, but the Comanche must throw away their war paint or we will have to make them."

• (Dana Andrews) "This is a good place."
• (Kent Smith) "Yes. We will live here like our fathers before us and their fathers before them. We were born here -- where the wind blows free and there is nothing to break the light of the sun. There are no enclosures and everybody draws a free breath."

• (Dana Andrews) "Oh, that Mexican girl. No harm will come to her?"
• (Kent Smith) "Tawalka and Morning Star will care for her. She's a captive. She belongs to the tribe."

Mike Mazurki as Flat Mouth

• (Mike Mazurki) "Medicine Mound. Sacred. Comanche only go there to meet Great Spirit."

Henry Brandon as Black Cloud

• (Henry Brandon) "It is Comanche that no man leads unless others follow."

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