Two Rode Together (1961) on Netflix
Marshal Guthrie McCabe takes a cut of Tascosa's business until the army comes for him. The Comanches hold white captives, and Lt. Jim Gary rides along as McCabe bargains for their release.
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Plot summary
Guthrie McCabe is the marshal of Tascosa, where he takes a percentage of the deals done in town, among them the saloon and brothel belonging to Belle Aragon, who has just proposed that they marry. A troop under First Lt. Jim Gary brings him to Fort Grant, where Major Frazer needs him. Relatives of white prisoners held by the Comanches are asking the army to bring them home, but a treaty bars soldiers from Comanche lands. McCabe wants a large payment before he will bargain with Chief Quanah Parker for the captives' release, and he rides out with Gary into Comanche territory.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Two Rode Together (1961)
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- John Ford hated the material of Two Rode Together: even after bringing in Frank Nugent, the screenwriter of The Searchers, to fix the script, Ford called it "the worst piece of crap I've done in 20 years."
- James Stewart said that on Two Rode Together John Ford told him to watch Richard Widmark because Widmark was a good actor who would steal scenes, and that Ford told Widmark the same thing about Stewart.
- One of Two Rode Together's most notable scenes, a four-minute two-shot of James Stewart and Richard Widmark bantering by a river, was shot by Ford with his crew waist-deep in the chilly water.
- Two Rode Together was shot at Alamo Village, the movie set originally created for John Wayne's 1960 film The Alamo.
- Two Rode Together was the first of three Westerns that James Stewart and John Ford made together, followed by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance the next year and Cheyenne Autumn in 1964.
- Two Rode Together was the fifteenth film that editor Jack Murray cut for John Ford, and his last; Murray died a few months before the film's release.
