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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Two Rode Together is an uneventful mess of a western.This film is extremely dull and contains many nonsensical moments. What is the deal with Sgt. Posey? Is he suppose to add comic relief, because he did no such thing. Didn't mind the main two characters, the rest were bad though.

It carries the mark of Ford. Two young men are competing for the same girl. There is a rambunctious fight in which someone has to knock the wooden chip from his opponent's shoulder. Somebody gets drunk There's a pretty girl in jeans and plaid shirt who emerges as a butterfly at the officer's dance. Two men make a long journey to visit a Comanche camp and bring back white captives.The cast features names like Carey, Carey Jr., Roberson, Hayward, Whitehead, Curtis, Lee, Devine, Bouchey, Brandon, Qualen, Pennick, and Strode. It not only suggests John Ford but it suggests "The Searchers" in particular.It's not "The Searchers" though; it's "Two Rode Together" with James Stewart and Richard Widmark in the leads and Shirley Jones and Linda Crystal as their ladies fair.The first half hour or so is entirely successful as a comic Western. Stewart is a cheerfully corrupt marshal in Tascosa, Texas, and Widmark is a captain in the US Cavalry. The film really depends on Stewart's portrayal of an utter scoundrel and he delivers. He flatly turns down the Army's request to visit the Comanche camp for humane reasons but on his way to the door, the major asks if money would make any difference. Stewart turns thoughtfully around. "Waall, ye -- yes. Yeah, money would make a difference." One of the best scenes has Stewart and Widmark sitting on a log next to a wide and shallow stream. Ford had the camerman and crew set up in icy waters up to their knees to get this long and unvarying shot of the two having a casually hilarious conversation.There are amusing moments later in the film as well, as Stewart tries to suggest ways that Linda Crystal can stop looking like an Indian and get all gussied up for the dance that night. Lamentably, Stewart knows nothing about women's fashions. "Why don't you -- you -- try -- wait a minute." And he takes Crystal's two long thick pigtails and twists them this way and that around her face and head while she stares up at him pitifully.When Ford gets serious, the movie falls apart, a pale shadow of "The Searchers." Confronted by a bare-chested Woody Strode -- a Comanche! -- who has come to reclaim his wife, knife in hand, Stewart whips out a pistol and shoots him to death where he stands. Linda Crystal is at least a docile recaptured captive. The other one they bring back -- a seventeen-year-old boy -- is not only ugly but must be listed among the world's worst actors. Not that he has much to do but kick and scream, but then many of the actors is small parts overact.When it's funny, it's funny. And when it's sad, it's REALLY sad.

Whiskey-soaked Texas lawman James Stewart (as Guthrie McCabe) and young Calvary lieutenant Richard Widmark (as Jim Gary) are hired to retrieve White people kidnapped by Native American "Indians". Finding these abducted people is difficult, but even harder is expecting them to revert to their birth culture. Comanche "Indians" assimilate their acquisitions, especially vulnerable young children. Little girls and boys typically grow up to be squaws, rapists and killers. One woman is advised her long-lost relative would probably rape her, or worse...Of the Ford regulars, screen veteran Mae Marsh (as Hanna Clegg) gets one of her better late-career roles...Among the Comanche, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Widmark manage to locate some missing White folk. However, returning them to civilized society is predictably difficult. The film's most interesting storyline involves pretty blonde Shirley Jones (as Marty Purcell) and potential brother David Kent (as "Running Wolf"). She also serves as a romantic interest for Widmark. Less satisfying is watching Stewart hook up with beautiful young Linda Cristal (as Elena de la Madriaga). You begin to wonder how seriously director John Ford took this topic...***** Two Rode Together (7/26/62) John Ford ~ James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal

One of several films of the '50s and '60s that dramatized the difficult and usually disappointing quest to rescue long term captives of Great Plains Native Americans(NA) tribes. This was John Ford's second venture into this subject, the first being the much better known "The Searchers". He only reluctantly agreed to direct this film. Unlike "The Searchers" and the previous "Charge at Feather River", in which the long term captives were rescued/abducted by stealth, in this film, the much more common method of bartering was attempted, except for Mexican Elena. All 3 films dramatize the frequent disappointment in discovering that long term captives usually didn't want to be rescued, at least initially, usually having forgotten their natal language and considering themselves culturally a NA by preference.. Those children who were not killed in NA raids usually were treated well , as potential tribal members. Older teens and adults usually were killed or kept for ransom or barter, slaves in the meanwhile.. Thus, in the film, Jimmy Stewart, as sheriff McCabe, and Richard Widmark, as army lieutenant Gary form a reluctant buddy pair, commissioned by Ft. Grant commander Frazer(John McIntire) to try to barter for the return of several captives in a Comanche village headed by chief Quanah Parker(the name of a historic famous Comanche chief, the son of a European captive). Strangely, the relatives of these captives form a wagon train pressure group camped outside of Ft. Grant. Money-hungry McCabe has arranged several lucrative bargains with these relatives for specific captives returned. However, he discovers that few captives want to be liberated or are appetizing prospects. Thus, he returns with only one son who is now a ferocious warrior who hates all whites. He has to be kept caged or tied up to avoid injuring others. His presumed father refuses to acknowledge him as his son. However, his presumed mother eventually unties him. He promptly kills her with a knife, and is consequently hung by a vigilante group. This is rather similar to the captive Jennie, in "Charge at Feather River", who shot her brother member of the rescue party, then promptly died from a fall. The only positive thing that results from this mission is the stealthy release of captive Latino Elena(Linda Crystal), who has been a wife of war chief Stone Calf for 5 years, and the killing of Stone Calf by McCabe. Like Anne, in "Charge at Feather River", she's not sure if she wants to continue her arduous NA role or be repatriated . Like Anne, she's afraid she will be treated as an outcast by most Europeans. And, like Anne, her dilemma is made more tolerable by the offer by the leading man to marry her.As typical Ford, the developing romantic attachments of Stewart with Elena and Widmark with Shirley Jones' character are left probable, but unfinished at the end. Stone Calf, the Comanche war chief of a militant brotherhood, is actually named after a Cheyenne chief of a military brotherhood. Comanches didn't have such brotherhoods.Stewart's character was sheriff of Tascosa. this is a historical town in the Texas panhandle: prime Comanche territory. During this period, it was an important cattle drive center, but after the railroad bypassed it, it gradually dwindled to a ghost town....Stewart's character in the initial part of this film looks and acts exactly like his Wyatt Earp character in the controversial Dodge City segment of the subsequent Ford-directed "Cheyenne Autumn""The Searchers" was mostly shot in the spectacular Monument Valley, AZ. However, the actual Comanche domain looked nothing like this. The present film was shot in southern Texas, still within traditional Comanche territory, with a much more authentic Comanche look to the wilderness scenes.I agree with one reviewer that Stewart seemed miscast and often seemed awkward in his role. Dean Martin would have been a much better choice.Strangely, the evil backwoods Cleggs father and sons are resurrected from "Wagon Master" of a decade previously. They pick a fight with Widmark over Shirley. With Andy Devine's later entry into the fracas,it becomes even more of a half-serious-half slapstick affair, reminiscent of the brawl featuring Victor McLaglen in Ford's "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"Yes, the fatal nocturnal attack by Stone Calf on MaCabe + Elena looked very clumsy, and why did he apparently come alone??Some reviewers interpret this film as illustrating an anti-NA prejudice by Ford. Well, Ford, being Irish, felt the anti-Irish, anti-Catholic prejudice of many Americans, thus identified with many other minority groups, including Mormons, Quakers, and, yes, NAs. Problem was, he knew most in his audiences expected NAs, or at least the warlike elements, to be the 'bad guys' in most films. Nonetheless, he tried to give the NAs a fair shake in many of his films, including "Fort Apache", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", Wagon Master", especially in "Cheyenne Autumn", and even in the present film. The prejudice felt by Elena emanating from many Europeans was not shared by Stewart's nor Widmark's characters. In fact, McCabe offered to marry her and got on the stagecoach for CA with her, to the amazement of all, especially his longtime saloon girlfriend, Belle.