COMANCHE STATION begins and ends with the same shot (reversed for the ending) and the trick Randolph Scott's character uses against Claude Akins (having a woman distract him by firing a six-shooter until it's empty, while Scott gets into position) is a rehash from an earlier Boetticher film, but it's the subtle and sometimes downright striking cinematography that makes this one worth watching. The camera carefully eases into position several times during the proceedings without calling attention to itself- and, if anyone ever framed a shot of "a western landscape" better than Boetticher, he slipped right past me. There's nary a misfire here and the opening wordless sequence (the kind of film-making Alfred Hitchcock referred to as "Pure Cinema") calls to mind the famous opening sequence of TOUCH OF EVIL (in COMANCHE STATION, it's done in a series of short shots that add up to an unforgettable whole; see the comments by OldAle1, who lays it all out in detail). Not a bad way at all to spend an evening.
Review of Comanche Station
