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.
Rio Bravo
They fought back to back... No quarter given... No quarter asked... No way in... No way out... of Rio Bravo!
1959 · 2h 21m · Approved
Western
Directed by
Howard Hawks
Overview
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Director and cast
- Howard Hawks Director
- John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance
- Dean Martin as Dude ('Borachón')
- Ricky Nelson as Colorado Ryan
- Angie Dickinson as Feathers
- Walter Brennan as Stumpy
- Ward Bond as Pat Wheeler
- John Russell as Nathan Burdette
- Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez as Carlos Robante
- Estelita Rodriguez Cast
- Claude Akins Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
To watch Rio Bravo is to see a master craftsman at work. The film is seamless. There is not a shot that is wrong. It is uncommonly absorbing, and the 141-minute running time flows past like running water.
Rio Bravo is a big, brawling western.
Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film.
Despite its slickness, virility, occasional humor and, if it may be repeated, authentic professional approach, it is well-made but awfully familiar fare.
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