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., Classic western set in a small Texas border town under the grip of an evil cattle baron. After a saloon fight ends in a shooting, the town’s sheriff arrests the cattleman’s psychopathic brother for murder, which leads to the tyrant’s henchmen besieging the town. With only a handful of supporters, including an old man and the town drunk, the sheriff attempts to hold out until help arrives., Sheriff Wayne tries to prevent a killer with connections from escaping from the town’s jail, with only a drunken Dino, leggy Angie, gimpy Brennan and lockjawed Ricky to help him. This 1959 western is now regarded as an American classic., John Wayne and Dean Martin in an entertaining tale of a sheriff vs. bad guys, with commendable direction by Howard Hawks., John Wayne is the sheriff determined to hold a murderer in jail, despite the attentions of a gang of villains. Dean Martin is the old soak who helps him out of a tight spot. A rollicking western from Howard Hawks., Western starring John Wayne as the sheriff who leads a gang of misfits trying to keep a notorious villain in jail until the US Marshall can take him to town., Classic western set in a small Texas border town under the grip of an evil cattle baron. After a fight in the local saloon, which ends in a shooting, the sheriff arrests the cattle baron’s psychopathic brother for murder – and puts the town of Rio Bravo under siege from the tyrant’s henchmen. With only a handful of supporters, including an old man and the town drunk, the sheriff attempts to hold out until help arrives., A sheriff determined to hold a murderer in jail invites the attentions of a gang of villains, but is helped out by an unlikely bunch of misfits., A sheriff who leads a gang of misfits trying to keep a notorious villain in jail until the US Marshall can tak him to town., In 1860s Texas, a small-town county sheriff, his cantankerous old deputy, an alcoholic lawman and a young gunslinger try to keep a murderous thug jailed long enough for the U.S. marshal to arrive on the scene., Classic Western starring John Wayne as the sheriff who leads a gang of misfits trying to keep a notorious villain in jail until the US Marshall can tak him to town. Dean Martin is a revelation as the drunken deputy trying to make amends for past sins.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Rio Bravo ” ?
A: The main cast includes John Wayne,Dean Martin,Ricky Nelson,Angie Dickinson,Walter Brennan,Ward Bond,John Russell,Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez,Estelita Rodriguez,Claude Akins,Harry Carey Jr.,Malcolm Atterbury,Bob Steele,Bing Russell,Myron Healey,Eugene Iglesias,Fred Graham,Tom Monroe,Riley Hill,Bob Terhune,Ted White,Nesdon Booth,George Bruggeman,Jose Cuchillo,Joseph Shimada,Robert Donner,Jules Furthman,Marjorie Best,Gordon Bau,Leigh Brackett,Russell Harlan,Folmar Blangsted,Dimitri Tiomkin,Leo K. Kuter.
Q: When Did the “Rio Bravo” Released?
A: The Movie “Rio Bravo” originally aired on 1959-07-20 and released in the year of 1959.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Rio Bravo” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Rio Bravo” ?
A: “Rio Bravo” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
