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starring: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal, Andy Devinedirected by: John Ford
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302276596
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302276594
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: August 27, 1997
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 3570
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: July 26, 1961
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Amazon.com:
Recycling elements of My Darling Clementine and The Searchers in a bitter, latter-day light, this late Western by John Ford initiates the last, dark phase of the master's vision of the corrupting influences of the progress of civilization in the wilderness. James Stewart is introduced to the Ford stock company as a thoroughly venal town marshal, Guthrie McCabe, who's pressed into service by the cavalry to oversee the ransoming of several whites long held captive by the Indians. McCabe is concerned with nothing but making a buck on the enterprise and coming back with his scalp intact, yet against his better judgment he becomes an arbiter of social and personal justice, and a de facto one-man protest against bigotry and hypocrisy. The cinematography is bleaker than anything seen in Ford's more heroic Westerns, and the stylistic high point is a hilarious one-take conversation between Stewart and cavalryman Richard Widmark at the river's edge. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Probably Ford's worst film....
This is arguably Ford's worst picture. That's not to say it's bad, but compared to other Ford films, it's one of his worst. Despite some magnificent passages, it's a very tiresome affair. Ford reportedly did it for the money, hated the script, and just tried to finish it as quickly as possible. His apathy towards the project comes through. It feels like a hodgepodge of cliched Western scenes thrown together.
The film does have its pleasures though. Stewart's performance (his ... Read More
Rating:  - Disappointing, sub-standard, John Ford Western. Pseudo "The Searchers" but minus John Wayne
TWO RODE TOGETHER (1961): A band of settlers put pressure on the US Army to repatriate their children caught by the Comanche Indians seven years earlier. In turn cavalry fort commander Major Frazer (James McIntire) puts pressure on a reluctant Marshal Guthrie McCabe (James Stewart) and Lieutenant Jim Gary (Richard Widmark) to saddle up and go in search of the white captives held by the feared Comanche Chief Quanah Parker (Henry Brandon). The two negotiate the return Running Wolf (David Kent) and ... Read More
Rating:  - Transcendent Greatness
This is a lesser version of THE SEARCHERS, which is a masterpiece in just about anybody's canon, but TWO RODE TOGETHER still achieves greatness because every element that plays to the gallery is overcome, or extended, with a surprise. We do not completely know these characters, and they do not completely know themselves, complexities that always make profundity possible in the right hands. It is a simple story that starts out as a comedy and flips over almost suddenly into a drama, and one that becomes ... Read More
Rating: - Two great actors ride together
It may seem crazy to disagree with a director's own assessment of a film but I like John Ford's "Two Rode Together" a great deal. Ford was in his mid-sixties and slipping when he made this film and some of the plot inconsistencies seem to have escaped him entirely. But the interplay between Stewart and Widmark is wonderful; this was the last great performance of Stewart's career, the best American actor who ever stepped in front of a camera. Francois Truffaut reportedly was influenced by their work when ... Read More
Rating: - Pretty bad...especially for John Ford.
Suppose he gets a Mulligan for this one though.
I usually have a strong precognition about Westerns I've never seen or heard about-that's cause they generally [are not good]. And this one didn't disappoint. Semi-light "buddy" formula with occasional serious overtones, or in this case undertones. I don't know what to say, I'm speechless. Just a really bad movie. Only Gregory Peck's "Shoot Out" comes close to it's pure awfulnissity. Oh yeah, Woody Strode as a Commanche....right. And Richard Widmark's ... Read More
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