Rio Bravo
1959 ‧ Western/Action ‧ 2h 21m
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: Warner Bros.
Based on: "Rio Bravo"; by B. H. McCampbell
Box office: $5.75 million (US and Canada rentals)
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