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Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond. Written by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett, based on the short story "Rio Bravo" by B.H. McCampbell, the film stars Wayne as a Texan sheriff who arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher for murder and then has to hold the man in…
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Howard Hawks is often regarded as one of the greatest directors in Hollywood history. Although he began his foray into Westerns relatively late in his illustrious career, it is this genre that has largely defined his legacy for younger audiences. This may be attributed to the vibrant colour palettes employed in these films, but more significantly, it is the 1959 classic *Rio Bravo* that stands out as a quintessentia…More
One of my favorite Westerns is High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952) where Gary Cooper in his role as Sheriff Will Kane must face four dangerous killers, asks for help from his fellow citizens, who deny him and he must face them alone. This film has its counterpart in the film Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) in which we are told a story of friendship through the confrontation between a sheriff, (John Wayne as John T. Chan…More
