Fort Parker massacre of his life, and most of his fortune, searching for his daughter Rachel, his grandson James, his niece Cynthia, and his nephew John Richard. After many near-death escapes, he finally settled with his family. John Wayne's character Ethan Edwards, in the John Ford Western "The Searchers", was modeled by author Alan Le May after Parker and others affected by child abductions. Former Dallas Morning News columnist Frank X. Tolbert in his book "An Informal History of Texas" entitled one of his book's chapters "Was Uncle James (Parker) The Villain" which expressed an entirely different take on the reverend. James W.
Comanche (1956 film) $30,000 for the script but held out to make it independently as he wanted the film shot in Mexico. The film received some good reviews with the location work in Durango, Mexico much praised. "TV Guide" and the "Radio Times" both rated it two out of four stars, each citing it as interesting mostly for introducing Cristal to North American audiences. Comanche (1956 film) Comanche is a 1956 Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Dana Andrews. The film has a theme song "A Man Is As Good As His Word" sung by The Lancers. In 1875, near Durango,