Rio Bravo
1959 ‧ Western/Action ‧ 2h 21m
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When gunslinger Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) kills a man in a saloon, Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) arrests him with the aid of the town drunk, Dude (Dean Martin). Before long, Burdette's brother, Nathan (John Russell), comes around,...
Release date: March 18, 1959 (USA)
Director: Howard Hawks
Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster
Distributed by: Netflix and Warner Bros.
Based on: "Rio Bravo"; by B. H. McCampbell
Box office: $5.75 million (US and Canada rentals)
People also ask
Why did they make Rio Bravo twice?
Outside of 1975's Rooster Cogburn - his penultimate movie - Wayne never made an official sequel. That said, his Rio Bravo director Howard Hawks liked the basic premise of that 1959 Western so much, that he essentially remade it twice.
Are Rio Bravo and El Dorado the same story?
"El Dorado" was a remake of Hawks' "Rio Bravo" (1958), and "Rio Lobo" draws from both of them. (It is said that when Hawks called Wayne and offered to send over the script, Wayne replied, "Why bother?
Is Rio Bravo worth watching?
Rio Bravo Reviews
A marvelous motion picture. It's pure romantic bliss that feels about as far away from a political statement as you could imagine.
How many Rio Bravo movies are there?
Rio Bravo was a commercial success, and the two men all but remade the movie twice, in El Dorado (1967) and in Rio Lobo (1970), Hawks's final film.
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