Two Rode Together
1961
The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches. However, just two captives are released; and their reintegration into white .. Read more
| Starring | James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal |
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| Director | John Ford |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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This rather slow moving late John Ford western stars James Stewart and Richard Widmark, who both seem slightly ill at ease in underwritten roles as a cynical sheriff and a gallant cavalry officer out to rescue victims of Comanche raids. Still, Elmer Gantry's Shirley Jones and The Alamo's Linda Cristal are well at home on the range, and keep an eye open for Henry Brandon, Chief Scar from Ford's classic The Searchers. The Stewart character has most of the dialogue but none of the answers, and neither, one suspects, has director Ford.
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Dismissed by Ford as a casual favour to Columbia's boss Harry Cohn, this neglected Western repays careful attention.... read more on Time Out
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Substandard Ford, moderately good-looking but uninteresting of plot and dreary of development.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Awful
This film is pretty awful, the actors groping their way through a script so inconsistent in tone you would hardly be surprised if Jimmy Stewart shot someone in the face and then broke out into a musical number.
The characters personalities change scene to scene, as does the tone of the film, veering from excruciating screwball comedy - a buddy scene by the river is so badly scripted it comes across as smug and just plain annoying – to intense melodrama.
Scenes are either too quick – the shooting of the India bad guy; or too slow – pretty much everything else.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
disapointing western
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- duke51 from Peterlee
- Posted 15 Mar 2008 13:08
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Two Rode Toegether
A film with a good storyline and good actors. Well worth renting.
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Awful
This film is pretty awful, the actors groping their way through a script so inconsistent in tone you would hardly be surprised if Jimmy Stewart shot someone in the face and then broke out into a musical number.
The characters personalities change scene to scene, as does the tone of the film, veering from excruciating screwball comedy - a buddy scene by the river is so badly scripted it comes across as smug and just plain annoying – to intense melodrama.
Scenes are either too quick – the shooting of the India bad guy; or too slow – pretty much everything else.
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Two Rode Toegether
A film with a good storyline and good actors. Well worth renting.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Awful
This film is pretty awful, the actors groping their way through a script so inconsistent in tone you would hardly be surprised if Jimmy Stewart shot someone in the face and then broke out into a musical number.
The characters personalities change scene to scene, as does the tone of the film, veering from excruciating screwball comedy - a buddy scene by the river is so badly scripted it comes across as smug and just plain annoying – to intense melodrama.
Scenes are either too quick – the shooting of the India bad guy; or too slow – pretty much everything else.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
disapointing western
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- duke51 from Peterlee
- Posted 15 Mar 2008 13:08
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Two Rode Toegether
A film with a good storyline and good actors. Well worth renting.
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Critics' reviews (3)
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This rather slow moving late John Ford western stars James Stewart and Richard Widmark, who both seem slightly ill at ease in underwritten roles as a cynical sheriff and a gallant cavalry officer out to rescue victims of Comanche raids. Still, Elmer Gantry's Shirley Jones and The Alamo's Linda Cristal are well at home on the range, and keep an eye open for Henry Brandon, Chief Scar from Ford's classic The Searchers. The Stewart character has most of the dialogue but none of the answers, and neither, one suspects, has director Ford.
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Dismissed by Ford as a casual favour to Columbia's boss Harry Cohn, this neglected Western repays careful attention.... read more on Time Out
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Substandard Ford, moderately good-looking but uninteresting of plot and dreary of development.
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