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Release Date:
4 April 1959 (USA)
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and Dean and Ricky sing, too! "Rio Bravo" "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" "Cindy" more
Plot:
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter...
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Small Town
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Sheriff
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Jail
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Texas
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Gunslinger
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Awards:
2 wins
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1 nomination
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Hawks' last masterpiece
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| John Wayne | ... | Sheriff John T. Chance | |
| Dean Martin | ... | Dude ('Borachón') | |
| Ricky Nelson | ... | Colorado Ryan | |
| Angie Dickinson | ... | Feathers | |
| Walter Brennan | ... | Stumpy | |
| Ward Bond | ... | Pat Wheeler | |
| John Russell | ... | Nathan Burdette | |
| Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez | ... | Carlos Robante (as Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez) | |
| Estelita Rodriguez | ... | Consuela Robante | |
| Claude Akins | ... | Joe Burdette | |
| Malcolm Atterbury | ... | Jake (stage driver) | |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | Harold (scenes deleted) | |
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| Sheb Wooley | ... | Cowboy (scenes deleted) | |
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Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
141 min
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Colour (Technicolor)
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Australia:G |
Australia:PG (DVD rating) |
West Germany:12 (nf) |
USA:Approved (certificate #19034) |
South Korea:15 (2007) |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U (re-release) |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG |
UK:U (original rating) (cut)
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The movie had an interesting preview trailer. In the trailer, Ricky Nelson finishes playing his guitar, then he turns to the camera and talks about the exciting nature of the film. After some clips are shown, they cut back to Nelson who lists the cast members. When he does not mention his own name, we hear the voice of Dean Martin say off camera "What about Rick Nelson"?
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the final gunfight, when Stumpy throws the Dynamite for Dude, and Dude says, "I didn't allow for the wind ", his lips never move.
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Referenced in "Angel: Dad (#3.10)" (2001)
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Cindy
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Disregarded at the time of its release, and still underrated by many critics, Rio Bavo is finally coming into its own as a masterpiece. One reason that it has been underrated is that,it does not seem a typical western for the fifties. Most of the great westerns of the period were darker and moodier. Witness for example, the great films of Boetticher and Anthony Mann, or-the supreme example-The Searchers.Others were 'revisionist' and often sought to convey a socially conscious "teaching'- High Noon is the paradigm here. In contrast, Rio Bravo is unashamedly reactionary. Hawks actually claimed to have made the film as a reply to High Noon..In addition, there are very few pyschological or moral ambiguities here. Instead, we get a classic Hawksian scenario, also found in Only Angels Have Wings and To Have and Have Not. . in which a groups of misfits and outsiders bands together to defeat evil. Here we have John Wayne- offering a performance of considerable subtlety and self knowledge- as the valiant, yet limited, patriarchal hero, John T. Chance. To save the day, he calls on a cast of standard Western characters:The old-timer( Brennan), the reformed drunk( Martin), The "kid'( Nelson), and the "hooker with a heart of gold( Dickinson).Thanks to Hawks' assured, efficient, direction,All of these actors transcend the stereotypes usually associated with such characters to deliver fine performances which are simultaneously "realistic' and archtypal. Particularly worthy of notice is Dean Martin. John Carpenter once claimed that the scene of Martin's "redemption" was the greatest moment in all of cinema. That may be an exaggeration, but Carpenter has a point. It is both moving and unforgettable.In short, Rio Bravo is a triumph for Howard Hawks and his seemingly artless art.