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Rio Bravo
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300268470
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6300268470
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogSpanish (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: January 26, 1993
Running Time: 141 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 04, 1959
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Editorial Review:
When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: John Ford's The Searchers, Howard Hawks's Red River, and Hawks's Rio Bravo. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River is a sweeping cattle-drive drama ("Take 'em to Missouri! Yeeee-hah!"), Rio Bravo is on a much more modest scale. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T. Chance (Wayne), his sobering-up alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black cofee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally, singin' a song. Hawks--who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of "grace under pressure"--said he made Rio Bravo as a rebuke to High Noon, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional--he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. This most entertaining of movies also achieved some notoriety in the '90s when Quentin Tarantino (director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Jackie Brown) revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. Oh, and if the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade Rio Bravo two more times--as El Dorado in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as Rio Lobo in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Newly rediscovered- and am I ever glad!
I hadn't seen this movie for... well, decades. In fact, I'd pretty much forgotten about it. Sure, I smiled at the reference in GET SHORTY, but I'd pretty much forgotten this one. Then I saw it at Wal Mart for a price too nice to pass up. I bought it and watched it with my wife who had never seen it before. We both loved it.
A little while later I watched my dvd of TRUE GRIT, the film Duke won his only Academy Award for. Good movie, but I thought he was MUCH better in RIO BRAVO ... Read More
Rating: - Howard Hawks/John Wayne classic
A decade after RED RIVER, Wayne and Hawks reteam on this powerhouse western (which Wayne and Hawks remake nearly a decade later with EL DORADO -- when Leigh Brackett (scripter on both) told Wayne and Hawks it was the same story Wayne responded, "It worked once, it'll work again." Dean Martin as the alcoholic "Dude", Ricky Nelson as fast-draw Colorado and Walter Brennan as "Stumpy". Hawks opens the movie without a word of dialogue in the first five minutes. Note: the man Claude Akins shoots dead ... Read More
Rating: - the duke
i love this movie 10 star not 5 it was the first hd dvd i bought allstar cast
Rating: - Classic Buddy Western
A buddy Western in the most classic sense. John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson at their very best. Angie Dickinson was terrific in her supporting role. The story was believable and the scenery very good.
Rating: - Don't Know Why....
...I like this movie so much, but it's fun and it has John Wayne. They all looked like they were having a good time.
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