Rent Rio Bravo (1959)
4.0 of 5 from 142 ratings
2h 16min
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- Synopsis:
- On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous sidekick from jail. On the other is Sherriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a drunk, the other a cripple. Place your bets! John Wayne is Chance in 'Rio Bravo', a lean Western classic packing solid heroics around a strong emotional core. He's joined by Dean Martin as the deputy coming off a two-year drunk, Walter Brennan as the old coot whose fiery spirit outmatches his hobbled stride, Ricky Nelson as a youngster out to prove himself by joining the lawmen and Angie Dickinson as a woman with a past who hopes to rope Chance.
- Actors:
- John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Estelita Rodriguez, Claude Akins, Malcolm Atterbury, Harry Carey Jr., Sheb Wooley, Edward Astran, Walter Barnes, George Bell, Nesdon Booth, George Bruggeman, Ralph Bucko, Yakima Canutt
- Directors:
- Howard Hawks
- Producers:
- Howard Hawks
- Writers:
- Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, B.H. McCampbell
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/02/2008
- Run Time:
- 141 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0, English Dolby Digital 1.0, French Dolby Digital 1.0, German Dolby Digital 1.0, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- Brazilian, Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, German Hard of Hearing, Italian, Italian Hard of Hearing, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Commentary by director John Carpenter and historian Richard Schickel
- 2 Slam-Bank All-New Featurettes: Commemoration: Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo, Old Tucson: Where the Legends Walked
- Career Profile “The Men Who Made the Movies”: Howard Hawks
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 04/12/2023
- Run Time:
- 141 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, French Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, German Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German Hard of Hearing, Italian Hard of Hearing, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Various
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary by John Carpenter and Richard Schickel
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Reviews (2) of Rio Bravo
Highly rated by the critics - Rio Bravo review by CD
This is a very highly rated movie which I felt just about lived up to its rating. Dean Martin is excellent and the chemistry between John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson is intriguing. There is a young and very beautiful Angie Dickinson who falls for Wayne instead of the younger stars! The plot is fairly predictable but Walter Brennan as Stumpy introduces the necessary comedy at times - the baddies are bad enough to deserve what they get but not so bad that they spoil the overall good feeling around the movie. John Wayne shows his usual grit to great effect.
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Legendary Western. - Rio Bravo review by Steve
This was made as a riposte to High Noon which Howard Hawks and John Wayne felt was anti-American, and they mocked the film for the notion that a sheriff would expect the support of his community; he should go out and shoot the bad guys alone. Though, in Rio Bravo, when the outlaws hit town, Duke has enough deputies and allies to fill a minibus.
The western it most imitates is Gunfight at the OK Corral, particularly for the comedy of its odd couple bromance. Wayne is the steadfast, sharpshooting Sheriff. Dean Martin is the charismatic, drunken deputy. The films share many similar details, but Rio Bravo is a more comic, cartoonish film. The characters have names like Stumpy and Dude. Angie Dickinson wears feathers and so is called Feathers.
And by the finale, Walter Brennan is throwing sticks of dynamite around like it's Looney Tunes. After Hawks made The Big Sleep he decided that the audience didn't care about the narrative, just the comedy and characters. Leigh Brackett wrote both films, and Rio Bravo is a series of archetypal western situations set into a loose narrative. The plot barely matters.
It's a long, episodic film and by the time Dino and Ricky Nelson present a couple of Mariachi ballads, it begins to feel more like a revue. There are a pair of comedy Mexicans. Dickinson reprises the Lauren Bacall persona from earlier Hawks films. But, personally, if it was intended to support the human rights abuses of the McCarthy witch hunts, then that makes liking Rio Bravo a lot to ask.
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