Rio Bravo

Name: Rio Bravo
Released: 1959-4-4
Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Rick Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan

Rio Bravo

PG
2h 21m
1959

96%

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John Wayne and Dean Martin star as a Western sheriff and his recovering alcoholic deputy who, along with a small ragtag group of men and women, refuse to release a suspected murderer from jail, even though they are surrounded and greatly outnumbered by gunmen.

Director:

Howard Hawks

Producer:

Howard Hawks

Writer:

B.H. McCampbell

Cast:

John Wayne, Dean Martin, Rick Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales, Claude Akins

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

96%

Critics Consensus: Rio Bravo finds director Howard Hawks -- and his stellar ensemble cast -- working at peak performance, and the end result is a towering classic of the Western genre.

Reviews

Keith & the Movies

Keith Garlington

The glue of the film may be the supporting performances. There is no way “Rio Bravo” would be as good if not for Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, and Angie Dickinson.

Few films have followed Western traditions with as much exhilarating craftsmanship, narrative and stylistic economy, or sheer escapist delight as Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo.

Rio Bravo is a soft, slack, not very rousing Western by a man (Howard Hawks) who knows better, having supervised a nearly endless chain of masterful journey films.

Howard Hawks' direction is almost flawless with a tempo that injects humor, some dry some raucous, as a handy antibiotic for the story's frequent feverish outbursts of violence.

'Rio Bravo' is one of the clearest samples of what could be called "Hawks style", a pinnacle of one of the three genres that the Indiana director handled with enviable style and ease: the western. [Full Review in Spanish]

April 22, 2020

FULL REVIEW

Additional Info

Genre:Action, Drama
Release Date:April 4, 1959
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
Stereo
Screen Pass Eligible:Yes

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Rio Bravo

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