Two Rode Together Overview:

Two Rode Together (1961) was a Western - Film Adaptation Film directed by John Ford and produced by John Ford and Stanley Shpetner.

SYNOPSIS

In a lesser, later Ford Western, Stewart is a corrupt small-town sheriff who goes on a bounty hunt with army officer Widmark to return white settlers from their Indian captors. When Kent, who has thoroughly assumed an Indian identity, is turned loose back at the fort, he kills the woman who claims him and is hung before Jones recognizes him as her brother. Cristal, who had become chief Strode's squaw, is shunned by the white women and bitterly longs for her life with the Indians. When Stewart learns he has lost his position, the two outcasts ride away together.

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Two Rode Together (1961): The Community of a John Ford Western

By 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 4, 2021 From 4 Star Films

With such a robust body of work, it’s no surprise John Ford often gravitated toward certain images to represent the West and Two Rode Together it little different with the director returning to familiar iconography. This time it’s Jimmy Stewart, not Henry Fonda, propped up against a rail... Read full article


Two Rode Together

By Michael on Nov 27, 2013 From Le Mot du Cinephiliaque

Two Rode Together (John Ford, 1961) Marshal McCabe (James Stewart) and First Lt. Jim Gary (Richard Widmark) are hired to bring back siblings and parents that have been kidnapped by the Comanches many years ago. They will meet Chief Quanach Parker (Henry Brandon) and make a trade for a young boy a... Read full article


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Quotes from

Sergeant Darius P. Posey: You! You're supposed to be dead!
Marshal Guthrie McCabe: I'm sorry, Slim. I didn't quite make it.


[while rescuing captives from the Comanches, Marshal McCabe missed voting for his re-election]
Marshal Guthrie McCabe: I didn't get a chance to vote for myself - not even once.


Marshal Guthrie McCabe: You know, sometimes it takes a lot more courage to live than it does to die.


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Facts about

Filmed in 1960, not released until 1961.
The film was widely regarded as a generally light-hearted variation on an earlier John Ford western, The Searchers.
John Ford later admitted he had only made the film for the money, and felt it was "still crap" even after he had brought in his favorite script writer Frank Nugent to rewrite it.
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