It's somewhat difficult to review this western. On one hand it's very well crafted, visually interesting and at less than 80 minutes strips the story down to its barest essentials. However aside from being a good western, there's not much else to give it higher praise.

Mostly a retread of previous Boetticher/Scott westerns with some nice photography and typically brisk pacing.

The usual stuff.

Burt Kennedy was a decent writer but it appears that he became repetitive over time. Comanche Station seemed to me like an inferior variation on the themes from his other works for Boetticher and Scott (7 Men From Now, The Tall T, Ride Lonesome). The only really new addition is the killing of some faceless Comanche attackers, which to tell you the truth I could do without.

Exellent Burt Kennedy script. Cody is Scott's most admirable loner. Akins is a great baddie, and the ending is very, very moving.

I like these Boetticher Westerns, simple and spare, yet elegantly constructed. It's like he's honed it down to the essential pleasures of the genre.