Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo

Director: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne
John Wayne
, Dean Martin
Dean Martin
, Ricky Nelson
Ricky Nelson
, Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson
Howard Hawks
Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo

Director: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne
John Wayne
, Dean Martin
Dean Martin
, Ricky Nelson
Ricky Nelson
, Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson
Howard Hawks

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Overview

Actor John Wayne and director Howard Hawks were equally disgusted by the popular 1952 western High Noon. What peeved them most was the premise that the townsfolk of a western community would desert their sheriff at a time when he needed them most--and that said sheriff would be reduced to begging for assistance. In High Noon, only a callow kid, a drunk, and an old man stick by sheriff Gary Cooper when he faces a showdown; this throwaway sequence was supposed to indicate the tremulous Cooper's fall from grace. In response, Wayne, Hawks and screenwriter Leigh Brackett build the whole plot of Rio Bravo around Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne), callow kid Colorado Ryan (Ricky Nelson), drunken ex-deputy Dude (Dean Martin) and toothless old cripple Stumpy (Walter Brennan)--elevating each of the four principals to superhero status. The scene is a Texas border town, held in thrall by land baron Nathan Burdette (John Russell). When Burdette's moronic brother Joe (Claude Akins) commits a murder, Sheriff Chance is obliged to lock the miscreant up until the federal marshal comes to town. Joe is certain that his brother's men will bust him out. Chance, realizing that the odds against his holding Joe (and staying alive) are slim, casts about for a few deputies. He refuses to endanger the townsfolk by pulling his assistants from their ranks: nor will he prevail upon his old friend, trail boss Pat Wheeler (Ward Bond) for help, reasoning that Wheeler isn't fast enough with a gun to stave off Burdette. Instead, Chance enlists the aid of Wheeler's cocksure new hand Colorado, the sobered-up Dude, and the garrulous but reliable Stumpy. The rest of the film consists of the long, long wait for Burdette to strike, with various comical and dead-serious intermissions involving the likes of dance-hall girl Angie Dickinson and Mexican family man Gonzales Gonzales. Roundly panned as just another western in 1959, Rio Bravo is nowadays rightly acknowledged as a classic of its genre. Director Hawks liked it so much he remade it (more or less) on two occasions, first as El Dorado in 1965, then as Rio Lobo in 1969; both films also starred Duke Wayne. Filmmaker John Carpenter acknowledged his debt to Rio Bravo by restaging the central situation in an urban setting in his 1976 feature Assault on Precinct 13.

Product Details

Release Date: 11/09/2010
UPC: 0883929157532
Original Release: 1959
Rating: NR
Source: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language: English
Time: 2:21:00
Sales rank: 3,985

Special Features

Closed Caption; Commentary by Director John Carpenter and Historian Richard Schickel; John Wayne Westerns Trailer Gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
John Wayne Le shérif John T. Chance
Dean Martin Dude
Ricky Nelson Colorado
Angie Dickinson Feathers
Walter Brennan Stumpy
Ward Bond Pat Wheeler
John Russell Nathan Burdette,Cowboy Murdered in Saloon
Estelita Rodriguez Consuelo
Claude Akins Joe Burdette
Harry Carey Jr. Harold
Malcolm Atterbury Jake
Bob Steele Matt Harris
Myron Healey Burdette Henchman in Saloon
Eugene Iglesias 1st Burdette Man in Shootout
Fred Graham 2nd Burdette Man in Shootout
Tom Monroe Henchman
Riley Hill Messenger
Bob Terhune Charlie the Bartender
Ted White Bart
Nesdon Booth Clark
George Bruggeman Clem
Jose Cuchillo Pedro
Joseph Shimada Burt, Funeral Director
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez Carlos Robante
Sheb Wooley un cow-boy
Fred Aldrich un pilier de bar
Frank Balderrama un pilier de bar
Walter Barnes Charlie
George Bell un pilier de bar
Audrey Betz le barman
Ralph Bucko le barbier
Albert Cavens un homme de main
Nick Borgani Actor
Yakima Canutt Actor
Noble Chissell Actor
Bud Cokes Actor
Cecil Combs Actor
Robert Donner Actor
Joe Gray Card Player
Harry Carey Actor
Dimitri Tiomkin Conductor,Composer

Technical Credits
Howard Hawks Director,Producer
Jules Furthman Screenwriter
Leigh Brackett Screenwriter
B.H. McCampbell Screenwriter
Robert B. Lee Sound Effects
Yakima Canutt Stunts
Leigh Brackatt Screenwriter
Jack Williams Stunts
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