Rio Bravo
RIO BRAVO (PG)
D: Howard Hawks
Armada (Howard Hawks)
US 1959
141 mins
Western
W: Jules Furthman & Leigh
Brackett
DP: Russell Harlan
Ed: Folmar Blangsted
Mus: Dimitri Tiomkin
John Wayne (John T. Chance), Dean
Martin (Dude), Ricky Nelson (Colorado Ryan), Angie Dickinson (Feathers), Walter Brennan (Stumpy), Ward Bond (Pat Wheeler), John Russell (Nathan Burdette)
Howard Hawks' response to High Noon stars John Wayne as a
sheriff who enlists the help of his a drunk deputy, a young gunslinger and a cripple to hold the town against a group of outlaws who aim to release one of their own from the
jailhouse.
Slightly overlong, this wonderfully produced western ranks
amongst John Wayne's best performances, though it's Dean Martin's performance which steals the show.
The film was remade, more or less, as El Dorado in
1966.
8/10
