Two Rode Together is a 1961 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart, Richard Widmark, and Shirley Jones.

Guthrie McCabe is the marshal of the town of Tuscosa, supplementing his income with a percentage of the profits of local businesses, including the saloon run by his mistress Belle.

Two women refuse to go back, but McCabe and Gary succeed in returning with a teenaged boy named Running Wolf and a Mexican woman, Elena de la Madriaga.

Running Wolf clearly hates white people, and no one will accept him, but a severely traumatized and broken woman is convinced that he is her long-lost son and claims him.

John Ford agreed to direct the film for money ($225,000 plus 25% of the net profits)[2] and as a favor to Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn, who died in 1958.

Even after he brought in his most trusted screenwriter, Frank Nugent — the man responsible for The Searchers and nine other Ford classics — to fix the script, the director said it was "the worst piece of crap I’ve done in 20 years.

"[4] One of the film's most notable scenes is a four-minute two-shot of Stewart and Widmark bantering on a river bank about money, women, and the Comanche problem.