Two Rode Together was filmed at Brackettville, Texas at the set John Wayne had built near the Mexican border to reenact his version of what happened at The Alamo. 'There is no reasoning with hotheads like Stonecalf, his death is most timely' I just tried to make Stewart's character as humorous as possible.' John Ford (Kitses, 112) 'The worst piece of crap I've done in twenty years', John Ford (McBride, 618) He liked things to be tense.' James Stewart in Andrew Sinclair, John Ford, Later, I learned he'd told Dick the same thing about me. ' On Two Rode Together he (John Ford) told me to watch out for Dick Widmark because he was a good actor and that he would start stealing if I didn't watch him. Where's Eloise going to sleep tonight? Can you hear her ghost wandering around the collapsing corridors of her beloved Plaza, trying to find her nanny's room? Calling out to the construction workers, in a voice that nobody hears, 'Has anyone seen my turtle, Skipperdee?' This is Erica Bain, and you've been listening to Streetwalk, on WKNW.Film Review:Two Rode Together,John Ford, 1961 So what are we left of those stories? Are we going to have to construct an imaginary city to house our memories? Because when you love something, every time a bit goes, you lose a piece of yourself. Stories of a city that is disappearing before our eyes, its people swept over the Williamsburg of those stories. Edgar Allan Poe, freeing live monkeys from the crates of a crumbling schooner on the oily slips of South Street. Sid Vicious spewing beer from his teeth in the Chelsea Hotel. Remember Kay Thompson's Eloise? Eloise who lived in the Plaza Hotel with her dog Weenie, and her parents were always away, and her English nanny who had eight hair pins made out of bones. And today I walked by the acres of scaffolding outside what used to be the Plaza Hotel. Last week took me to the gray depths of the East River where Dmitri Panchenko swims his morning laps, like he has every morning since the 1960s. I walk and watch and listen, a witness to all the beauty and ugliness that is disappearing from our beloved city.

The brave one movie 1961