Rio Bravo

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Rio Bravo (1959)

NR 03/18/1959 (US) Western 2h 21m

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They fought back to back... No quarter given... No quarter asked... No way in... No way out... of Rio Bravo!

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The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.

Howard Hawks

Director
Leigh Brackett

Screenplay
Jules Furthman

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John Wayne

John Chance
Dean Martin

Dude
Angie Dickinson

Feathers
Walter Brennan

Stumpy
Ricky Nelson

Colorado Ryan
Ward Bond

Pat Wheeler
John Russell

Nathan Burdette
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez

Carlos Robante
Estelita Rodriguez

Consuela Robante
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on November 25, 2019

The good outweighs the bad in Hawks macho movie.

Filmed by Howard Hawks as a response to what he saw as none macho cinema in Gary Cooper's acclaimed High Noon, Rio Bravo has moments of brilliance that are sadly coupled with failings that are not Hawksian peccadilloes. The macho plot is simple but wholly effective as our heavily out numbered heroes (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Walter Brennan & Ricky Nelson) defend a jail house against a marauding mob trying to release an incarcerated friend. This alone sounds grand but the truth is, is that it takes the film nigh on close to 100 minutes to get... read the rest.

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