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If you like Broderick Crawford, you will enjoy this film from beginning to end. Broderick plays the role of Sgt. Matt Trainor who leads a group of people from Arizona with all kinds of backgrounds, one man was a gun smuggler for the Indians, Black Cloud and a young woman, named Julia Lanning, (Barbara Hale) who is among many men but no one tries to hit on her, mainly because they are too busy fighting off Indians constantly. There is plenty of action with arrows flying through the air and people running out of water and Sgt. Matt playing all kinds of games with the Native American Indians who do not fool around and drive a hard bargain. Lloyd Bridges, "Sea Hunt TV Series" (Jim Starbuck) looks very young and gives a great supporting role. Enjoyable 1953 film classic which was filmed in Buttercup Dunes, California and not the Sahara Desert.

The remainder of a squadron of cavalry and the unfortunate passagers of a stagecoach join forces throughout the desert escaping from hostile indians and fighting for their survival . An exciting, stirring tale about a stranded group who hardly ever holding Comanche attacks. Ten men...a woman..and only a ghost of a chance ! Ten against then thousand ... and a million-to-one chance to even the odds !

Gritty and decently written Western , exploring the anguish of soldiers and stagecoach passengers , and the hard relationship among them. This is a moving story about people surrounded and continuously harassed by Indians and other dangers . Make a thousand double bill Westerns and you must come up with one little gem . Director here and there puts every trick and action enough . Stars Broderick Crawford who gives a nice acting as a two-fisted Cavalry Sergeant commanding a ragtag team. He leads a parade of interpretations that make the characters live. The remmant cast are pretty good with plenty of notorious actors and other secondaries, such as : Barbara Hale, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Shaughnessy, George Mathews, Chubby Johnson , Martin Milner and brief appearance uncredited of Steve Forrest.

It displays a thrilling and evocative musical score by George Duning. Furthermore, brilliant and picturesque photography by cameramen Charles Laughton and Ray Cory. The motion picture was well directed by Andre De Toth .At his beginning, De Toth entered the Hungarian film industry , getting work as a writer, editor, second unit director and actor before eventually becoming a filmmaker. Later on, Alexander Korda gave him a job in England, then Toth emigrated to the US in 1942 and started working as a second unit director in Jungle Book 1942. Andre De Toth was a skillful artisan, who made all kinds of genres as : Adventure : The Mongols , Morgan the pirate, Tanganyka. Peplum: Gold for the Caesar. Terror : House of Wax 1953, probably his best and most known film. And Westerns : Indian Fighter, Man in the saddle, Ramrod, The stranger wore a gun, Last of the Comanches . Rating : 6.5, well worthwatching. Essential and fundamental seeing for Western enthusiasts.

This movie takes place in the southwestern part of the United States with the Comanche chief "Black Cloud" (John War Eagle) having left the reservation with a large number of warriors to wage war upon everyone in that area. And one of his first targets is the small town of Dry Buttes where a small cavalry regiment finds itself forced to fight against incredible odds. Eventually finding themselves unable to successfully defend the town, a few cavalry soldiers led by "Sergeant Matt Trainor" (Broderick Crawford) manage to escape into the desert but in their haste carry very little food or water with them. Not long after that they come upon a stage coach headed directly for Dry Buttes and after turning it around they realize that their only chance to survive depends on their making it safely to Fort Macklin which is over 100 miles away. But to do that they will not only have to evade the Comanches but also need to find a source of water somewhere in the very near future as well-and that is much more difficult than they realize. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a pretty good Western which captured the feel of the harsh conditions of the southwestern desert pretty well. Admittedly, a couple of the decisions made by Sergeant Trainor seemed rather odd but it made for good entertainment none-the-less. Be that as it may, while this film may not have been a great Western by any means it managed to pass the time fairly well and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

Last of the Comanches (AKA: The Sabre and the Arrow) is directed by Andre De Toth and adapted to the screen by Kenneth Gamet. It stars Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Shaughnessy, Johnny Stewart, George Matthews and Hugh Sanders. A Technicolor production with cinematography by Charles Lawton Junior and Ray Cory and music by George Duning.

Safe as a bomb shelter Western. A remake of Zoltan Korda/Humphrey Bogart's war movie "Sahara" from 1943, Last of the Comanches finds Broderick Crawford as the leader of what remains of a massacred cavalry troop. As they make their way across the desert they pick up ragtag group of stagecoach passengers and as water runs low, they must fight for survival against fierce Comanches led by Black Cloud.

In essence it's a survivalist story with some Indian War action dotted around the outskirts of plotting. It's nice and airy, pleasingly performed, easy on the eye with its Technicolor photography, and De Toth once again shows himself to be a good marshall of action scenes. Crawford carries the movie of course, imbuing Sergeant Trainor with fearless bluster that holds the dysfunctional group together. The narrative strength comes from the lack of water, both for the whiteys and the Comanche, where the often forgotten weapons of war, that of food or drink, firmly keeps the story engrossing.

Not as good as "Sahara" but still a safe recommendation to Western and Brod Crawford fans. 7/10

Basically this film is a remake of the 1943 Humphrey Bogart film 'Sahara' with essentially the same plot moved from the deserts of North Africa to the American Southwest. Nevertheless, this is a solid western with good acting by a cast of competent character actors and vivid photography. Broderick Crawford was, to my mind, a very underrated actor and we see Barbara Hale here prior to her 'Perry Mason' days and Lloyd Bridges prior to his'Sea Hunt' underwater TV series. All in all, an enjoyable film for western devotees. I remember originally seeing this film at the weekly Friday night 'Ranch Night' at my local theater in the late 50s. If you like this film, be sure to see the 'Last Posse' with Broderick Crawford which is just as good, if not superior to this western.

This is an old fashioned cowboys and Indians story with the cavalry literally saving the heroic band of Indian fighters at the last minute. It has some very good old fashioned character actors with the likes of Broderick Crawford, Martin Milner, Mickey Shaughnessy and a much younger Della Street in the guise of Barbara Hale. In this age of extreme anxiety, with bands of terrorists threatening we know not where or what, it was very nice to escape back in time to this kind of well produced, well acted 50's western. Though it is, perhaps, a movie for those of a certain generation.

A solid directorial effort by Andre De Toth (check out the scene in silhouette with Broderick Crawford & Lloyd Bridges), good story and acting plus decent dialogue make this a must see for any western or "drama classics" fan.

This movie is almost a carbon copy of the WWII, 1943 version of the movie Sahara which starred Humphrey Bogart as Sergeant Joe Gunn. Bogart and a ragtag group of soldiers cross the Sahara Desert and make an almost hopeless stand against terrible odds.

They and the Germans are greatly in need of water. The..."trade a rifle for a cup of water... two rifles, two cups of water" is the same in both.... still fun to watch. It's fun to match the characters and the similarities. Sahara (1943) is a very, very good WWI movie.... Last of the Comanches (1952) is a so-so Western.

This western is a survival story as a cavalry sergeant leads six cavalry troopers and a few stagecoach travelers across barren desert flats and battle thirst, sand-storms and Comanches. The film is a carbon-copy of the 1943 film "Sahara" in a western setting with the soldiers fighting Indians with other western movie clichés thrown in. Barbara Hale, the cast's only femme, is solid in her support of star Broderick Crawford and is very much at home in the western genre. Her characterizations are always credible. There are some fine battle scenes but most of the film is bogged down with dialogue for character development. An Indian boy turns out to be a hero after nearly being abandoned in the desert by the soldiers. Color photography is good.

An atmospheric, character-driven exercise in suspense shot mainly out in the open in brilliant sunlight, set shortly after the massacre at Little Big Horn. Handsomely mounted in Technicolor and grouped with a dramatic eye; the use of the singular being appropriate since the director himself famously had only the one eye.

Director Andre de Toth pretty much did his apprenticeship under Charles Chaplin and, neither man displaying a deep interest in photography, it is not surprising that LAST OF THE COMANCHES should look rather run of the mill from a visual standpoint.

Action sequences are OK, some good ones blending rather jaggedly with some less than convincing Indian attacks. One curiosity: in other flicks I have watched involving Comanche braves, apparently they did not engage in fighting at night because of ancestral beliefs.

Well, in LAST OF THE COMANCHES good old murderous Chief Black Cloud throws caution and tradition to the wind and proceeds to attack the few cavalry men (and one woman, Barbara Hale) left at the old church in the ravaged village, and they do it in the dead of night (pedestrian day for night filming).

Crawford and Bridges deliver strong performances, Shaughnessy as the practical and loyal Irishman is probably the most likable character. Johnny Stewart as the Indian boy, Little Knife, is clearly too caucasian to pass off as Indian, and credibility suffers as a result. Sadly, Hale has to make the best of an unmemorable part where she just loads rifles and occasionally fires off a round, ultimately escaping unscathed where everybody else is mowed down or wounded.

Clearly, the producers felt there had to be a lady in a film with the cavalry coming to the rescue in the nick of time. Not that it rescues the film or the time you have invested in watching it but the acting warrants 6/10.

I'd seen this film not so long ago and have just watched it again, as "Last of the Comanches", on YouTube. I guess it's nearly all been said in other reviews.

Its other title, as given here on IMDB, was not particularly appropriate, as sabres only featured at the end. Strange that the only survivors of the attack on the town were cavalrymen - one might have thought that there would have been a few civilians, even an alternative to Julia Lanning, one of so many attractive women implausibly making perilous journeys in Westerns' stagecoaches.

And how remarkable that, despite being short of water for several days, the men remained clean shaven. (Perhaps Sergeant Trainor insisted on them shaving dry?)

The two captured Indians looked very scrawny and unimpressive.

But these are criticisms of minor flaws in a generally entertaining film.

Any time you see a movie with a theater full of kids and it holds your attention, it HAS to be a winner. So WHY don't we see it on Amazon? Whay is there only one seller who has it TODAy on eBay, torturing me?WHY is there only a Spanish poster available? WHY was Lloyd Bridges in BOTH the original "Sahara" and this remake? Wasn't he planning Sea Hunt or something? The color as IO remember it is saturated - please refer to DeToth's other big color pictures: He fell in love, obviously, in 1951 with Technicolor directing the HARD to FIND "Man in the Saddle" with Randolph Scott and Lone Pine, CA...; back in Europe he did the Italian job 'Morgan the Pirate' with Steve Reeves in '61 (Eastmancolor); what about Vincent Price's masterpiece remake? 1953's 'House of Wax' also in Warnercolor... and don't forget Coop's classic and De Toth's first Warnercolor picture from the previous year: "Springfield Rifle"...unforgettable! What a colorist! What a stylist! and he lived to NINETY!

A little too-standard re-make of the "Cowboys and Indians" western drama ("The Lost Patrol", "Sahara"…). It does update the budget - with scenic location camera-work, and interesting direction by Andre De Toth. Broderick Crawford is fine, but seems a little out of place in western gear. Barbara Hale adds feminine charm. Johnny Stewart is fine as the Indian boy; but, certainly not as mesmerizing as in "Boots Malone" (1952). But, there isn't as much potential in this film's parts. Lloyd Bridges looks similarly under-appreciated.

"Last of the Comanches" shows a formula getting tired, with not enough newness in the storyline. The production is good, though. The film is bracketed by exciting "Cowboys versus Indians" battles, and there is a lively series of line explosions, in-between.

***** Last of the Comanches (1952) Andre De Toth ~ Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale, Johnny Stewart

Normally i am not a western fan but this movie was exceptional. broderick, lloyd bridges, barbara hale etc. so many great actors i like. all i can say is its what movies are all about.

Seems weird though to already make a remake, only 10 years after the original This movie is being based on the 1943 movie "Sahara", which starred Humphrey Bogart in the main lead. That movie in return though was also a remake of the 1937 Soviet production "Trinadtsat". All that these three movies have in common are of course that they feature the same story and main premise but also feature different settings and groups of people. The 1937 version had Soviet soldiers, set in the Asian wastelands, the 1943 had American soldiers in the Sahara desert, during WW II and this version features a couple of American soldiers as well, only set in the late 19th century in the wild west.

It's funny that this movie also stars Lloyd Bridges again, who had also starred previously before in the 1943 movie "Sahara". This time he plays a more grateful role though. Also the Oscar winner Broderick Craword plays in this movie, as its main lead. Not that he impresses much though and nor does any of the other actors really. This has more to do with the script that is lacking in some good dialog. Also the characters just don't ever work out well in the movie. The movie obviously didn't cost a lot of money to make and it's also really a bit clumsily and cheap looking at times, especially when you compare it the black & white movie of 10 years earlier.

Still it's a fair enough and entertaining movie to watch. You can say that the movie serves it's purpose but you just feel that they just didn't do the best possible with its source material. Still its main concept remains what makes this movie a good and also quite entertaining one to watch.

The movie has plenty of action in it, though it also feels after a while that the movie starts repeating itself with its moments at times. Some of the moments also feel like they were put in just for the sake of having some action in the movie.

A good enough remake of a remake.

6/10

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A bad example of the western B-movie genre. Absurd dialogue, cornball all the way. Pretty Technicolor desert photography. Crawford, hilariously barking orders like on speed (remember Highway Patrol: "I want roadblocks here, here, and here. 10-4!"). Notable only for Yakima Kanut as 2nd unit director, and Jay Silverheels in a bit part. Favorite dialogue, aside from Crawford and Black Cloud (noted elsewhere): Indian boy says he knows where water is and is asked how far. "Thirteen miles", he replies with amazing attention to accuracy and a fine understanding of the English system of weights and measures. What, no GPS coordinates? For all the talk about the Indians having "carbines", all the soldiers seem to get shot by arrows. I had no idea this was based on the Bogart WW2 film "Sahara", and this unfortunate fact is ultimately insulting to that film.