Two Rode Together (1961)

John Ford’s darkly comic film, in one way a skewed version of his masterpiece  The Searchers (1956), is not among his best, but it does have some laughs, an occasional thought, and an interesting performance by James Stewart. The cynicism of his character, which extends the tough cowboy persona he had developed in the Westerns of Anthony Mann, plays against his iconography. Widmark, likewise abandons his characteristic sneer as the kind of sincere character that was usually played by his co-star.

1961, colour, 109 minutes