Has one of the best and strangest casts in all of movies.
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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
Arguably Hawks' greatest film.
02/09/06
... one Hawks' greatest films, perhaps his masterpiece, and one of the finest westerns of all time.
05/17/07
Rio Bravo may not be a perfect film, but it's close enough as to not matter.
05/21/07
Rio Bravo is everything you likely ever imagined a western to be, and a little bit more.
07/25/01
The 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's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film.
05/13/08
Top CriticIt's heart-warming, thrilling and romantic... It doesn't get much better than this!
09/10/02
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
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
Although Rio Bravo rather ambles along, it still has enough good points to make it a genial viewing experience.
05/22/07
Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo as a conservative response to the liberal High Noon.
08/27/05
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
Top CriticTexecution is superb in every department, making this one of the classics of the genre
02/20/09
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
Top CriticWayne, 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
Top CriticRio Bravo is a big, brawling western.
05/13/08
Top CriticA lengthy, leisurely paced film.
05/13/08
Top CriticFaultless, freewheeling-and very funny.
05/13/08
Top CriticFlawlessly cast, complex, amusing and exciting, the film integrates multi-layered themes into a unified and satisfying whole.
05/13/08
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