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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391145349
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 141 minutes
Sales Rank: 1873
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 04, 1959
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When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: John Ford's The Searchers, Howard Hawks's Red River, and Hawks's Rio Bravo. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River is a sweeping cattle-drive drama ("Take 'em to Missouri! Yeeee-hah!"), Rio Bravo is on a much more modest scale. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T. Chance (Wayne), his sobering-up alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black cofee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally, singin' a song. Hawks--who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of "grace under pressure"--said he made Rio Bravo as a rebuke to High Noon, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional--he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. This most entertaining of movies also achieved some notoriety in the '90s when Quentin Tarantino (director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Jackie Brown) revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. Oh, and if the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade Rio Bravo two more times--as El Dorado in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as Rio Lobo in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. --Jim Emerson
Product Description:
John Wayne stars as the sheriff of a small western town who arrests a murderer and then must contend with the aggressive efforts of the killer's brother to free him before the state marshall arrives. Surrounding the town the villains make repeated runs at the tiny jailhouse where their comrade is incarcerated. The sheriff is left to defend the territory almost single-handedly -- his only aid being a rag-tag crew of misfits including a drunk an old cripple a saloon woman and a singing teenager. The plot's tensions build to one of the most explosive finales in cinema history.System Requirements:Running Time: 247 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 085391145349 Manufacturer No: 114534
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This was such a hard film to rate. On one hand you have a Howard Hawkes classic western, starring John Wayne, and with a great supporting cast. And yet, there are a couple of things that do detract from the movie. So after vacillating between 4 and 5 stars, I settled on 4. In reality, I rate it a 4.5.
Rio Bravo is the first, and arguably best, of a trio of western films from Hawkes that many say the latter two (El Dorado & Rio Lobo) were sequels of. While calling those two later ... Read More
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I hadn't seen this movie for... well, decades. In fact, I'd pretty much forgotten about it. Sure, I smiled at the reference in GET SHORTY, but I'd pretty much forgotten this one. Then I saw it at Wal Mart for a price too nice to pass up. I bought it and watched it with my wife who had never seen it before. We both loved it.
A little while later I watched my dvd of TRUE GRIT, the film Duke won his only Academy Award for. Good movie, but I thought he was MUCH better in RIO BRAVO ... Read More
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A decade after RED RIVER, Wayne and Hawks reteam on this powerhouse western (which Wayne and Hawks remake nearly a decade later with EL DORADO -- when Leigh Brackett (scripter on both) told Wayne and Hawks it was the same story Wayne responded, "It worked once, it'll work again." Dean Martin as the alcoholic "Dude", Ricky Nelson as fast-draw Colorado and Walter Brennan as "Stumpy". Hawks opens the movie without a word of dialogue in the first five minutes. Note: the man Claude Akins shoots dead ... Read More
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i love this movie 10 star not 5 it was the first hd dvd i bought allstar cast
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A buddy Western in the most classic sense. John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson at their very best. Angie Dickinson was terrific in her supporting role. The story was believable and the scenery very good.
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