Story Line
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
“Big Jake the Adventurer... Paul Regret the Gambler... Pilar the Gypsy beauty... Three With a Past... Destined to Cross and Clash... In a Kingdom of Killers!”
Top Cast
John Wayne
Jake Cutter
Stuart Whitman
Paul Regret
Ina Balin
Pilar Graile
Nehemiah Persoff
Graile
Lee Marvin
Crow
Michael Ansara
Amelung
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Rating
6.7/ 10
Release Date
1961-12-16
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Western
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User Reviews (4)
John Chard
6.5/10
•5/9/2014Just like your first rattler. One look and you'll know.
After winning a duel with a prominent and connected New Orleans man, gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) has to flee on account of impending arrest for murder. But he is soon captured by Tex...
Dark Jedi
7/10
•9/10/2014This movie was directed by both Michael Curtiz and John Wayne himself although the latter was never credited as a director. I so enjoyed myself when watching this movie. It is indeed a classical John Wayne western very far from todays special effects...
drystyx
9/10
•4/18/2023A Western Divine Comedy.
This Duke Western is a modern day Dante's Inferno, as two protagonists enter a Hell on Earth.
This "Hell" is created by an evil sadist played by Nehemiah Persoff. The two protagonists are Jake, played by John Wayne, and Reg...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•2/19/2026This was always one of my favourite John Wayne films from childhood and the “Friday Western” on BBC2. Here he’s a Texas ranger who finds himself working with the suave, debonair and entirely untrustworthy duellist “Regret” (Stuart Whitman) against so...