Two Rode Together [VHS]
by John Ford
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Actor: Andy Devine, James Stewart, Linda Cristal, Richard Widmark, Shirley JonesDirector: John Ford
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 110 minutes
Release Date: 1997-08-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Movie Review: Probably Ford's worst film....
Summary: 2 Stars
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 first film with Ford) is very good. He plays a morally ambiguous sheriff, and Widmark is very good. There's an excellent scene where Stewart and Widmark are sitting on a river bank just talking. It runs on for 3 minutes or so (there's no cutting in the scene), and Widmark and Stewart improvised the whole thing. They didn't even know they were being filmed. It's the best scene in the film. Shirley Jones is good here as well, but Andy Devine's "comic relief" is quite awful (Devine would redeem himself in Ford's next picture, the masterpiece The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. It's Devine's finest performance). If you're a Ford fan, you should check this one out. If not, stay away.
Summary of Two Rode Together [VHS]
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. JamesonWesterns VHS Video
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