John Ford's Two Rode Together was released, starring Richard Widmark and James Stewart. Stewart plays a cynical marshal who repatriates Indian captives, and Widmark the cavalry officer who accompanies him on his journeys. This is altogether the weakest of Ford's later Westerns, which depicts "a nightmare vision of the frontier overrun by hysteria and hypocrisy, a frontier in which even the Indians are seen as primtive entrepeneurs" (Encyclopedia of Western Movies). But even the weakest Ford movie has a great scene. Here it's Widmark and Stewart having a conversation by the riverside about nothing in particular. It's a great human moment that only Ford could capture. (Lore has it that The Searchers was originally supposed to be named Two Rode Together.) Here's the trailer for the movie:
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