Flawlessly cast, complex, amusing and exciting, the film integrates multi-layered themes into a unified and satisfying whole.
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05/13/08
Rio Bravo (1959)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:32
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.2/10
Runtime: 4 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson
Director: Howard Hawks
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Reviews for Rio Bravo
Faultless, freewheeling-and very funny.
05/13/08
A lengthy, leisurely paced film.
05/13/08
Rio Bravo is a big, brawling western.
05/13/08
Wayne, of course, walks off with the show -- not by doing anything in particular, but simply by being what he is: at 51, still one of the most believable he-men in Hollywood.
04/27/09
Despite its slickness, virility, occasional humor and, if it may be repeated, authentic professional approach, it is well-made but awfully familiar fare.
03/25/06
Texecution is superb in every department, making this one of the classics of the genre
02/20/09
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04/07/05
No review available.
11/07/03
A comic western that ambles through its two hours and 21 minutes, it always has time to pause for a joke, a song or banter among the characters.
01/01/00
Rio Bravo may not be a perfect film, but it's close enough as to not matter.
05/21/07
A definitive piece of Americana by way of Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo is what the late 1950s studio system was all about.
01/01/00
No review available.
10/09/05
Masterful. Archetypal Westerns don't get any better.
07/25/02
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09/10/07
No review available.
05/28/04
Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film.
05/13/08
Top CriticThe action-oriented, straight-up good vs. evil, moral- ambguity-be-hanged, Western star vehicle has never been done better than this.
05/02/01
Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo as a conservative response to the liberal High Noon.
08/27/05
No matter what you think of Zinnemann's High Noon (I'm mixed), it's directly responsible for the making of Hawks' most entertaining and classic Western, which displays all of his thematic concerns, such as the emergence of an intimate male camaraderie
08/16/06
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