“John Ford was supposed to have directed Ramrod, but as Andre de Toth recalls, “Jack said that I should direct the picture because he thought characters were more important than horses. I knew how to ride anyway, and I know characters.” Ramrod is that rarity, an adult Western, involving passions, frustrations, inter-family feuding, and that classic Western plot of one man tracking down another. As the “ramrod” (or foreman), Joel McCrea gives one of the best dramatic performances of his career, aided by a coolly beautiful Veronica Lake (then Mrs. Andre de Toth). Ramrod set the pattern for the more than half-a-dozen Westerns which de Toth was to direct in the fifties.” Anthony Slide