Rio Bravo

Name: Rio Bravo
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Released: April 4, 1959
Duration: 141 min
Rating: 93
Cast: Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins, Dean Martin, Estelita Rodriguez, John Russell

1959

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: April 4, 1959 | Passed

Starring: Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins, Dean Martin, Estelita Rodriguez, John Russell, John Wayne, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond

Summary: A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

Director: Howard Hawks

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Western

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 141 min

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Dave Kehr

It's American filmmaking at its finest—clean, clear, and direct—and it's also the most optimistic masterpiece on film, valiantly shoring fragments against human ruin. Read full review

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Keith Phipps

Rio Bravo features characters who form a familial bond while performing an impossible task in the face of death. It is, in other words, a Howard Hawks movie. It's a great one, too, and if it's not Hawks' best, it's certainly the most Hawksian. Read full review

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Mike Clark

Another great 1950s John Wayne Western from Warner Bros. [25 May 2007, p.4E]

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Josh Larsen

Directed by Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo has its fair share of gunfights and saloon showdowns (including a bravura opening confrontation that unfolds with barely any words). Yet the film resembles other Westerns less than it does Hawks’ snappy romances, such as Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and To Have and Have Not. Read full review

Richard Brody

The movie is simultaneously an apogee of the classic Western style, with its principled violence in defense of just law, and an eccentrically hyperbolic work of modernism, which yokes both bumptious erotic comedy and soul-searing rawness to the mission. Read full review

Jeff Shannon

Hawks drew from his entire career to enliven this amalgam of genre traditions, once favored by Quentin Tarantino as a litmus test for potential girlfriends. [26 Oct 2003]

A. H. Weiler

Despite its slickness, virility, occasional humor and, if it may be repeated, authentic professional approach, it is well-made but awfully familiar fare. Read full review

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mostafamoradi

Jul 19, 2020

One of the best westerns ever made. with great performance of john wayne dean martin and Ricky Nelson. howard hawks in rio bravo used Art for entertainment

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Kaseywol

Jul 17, 2020

Pretty much garbage. I don't know why people once thought John Wayne was a good actor. Unrealistic overly long and brainless.

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