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Rio Bravo
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300268470
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6300268470
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogSpanish (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: January 26, 1993
Running Time: 141 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 04, 1959
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Editorial Review:
When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: John Ford's The Searchers, Howard Hawks's Red River, and Hawks's Rio Bravo. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River is a sweeping cattle-drive drama ("Take 'em to Missouri! Yeeee-hah!"), Rio Bravo is on a much more modest scale. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T. Chance (Wayne), his sobering-up alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black cofee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally, singin' a song. Hawks--who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of "grace under pressure"--said he made Rio Bravo as a rebuke to High Noon, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional--he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. This most entertaining of movies also achieved some notoriety in the '90s when Quentin Tarantino (director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Jackie Brown) revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. Oh, and if the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade Rio Bravo two more times--as El Dorado in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as Rio Lobo in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Amazon sells defective product
I ordered two different copies of this collectors edition. Both times Amazon sent defective products. There were two of the same discs in the set and one disc was missing.
Rating:  - Great movie, but not so great Blu-Ray
The movie Rio Bravo is one of the all time greats in my opinion, but I am specifically reviewing the Blu-Ray version of the movie here.
This Howard Hawks Rio Bravo with John Wayne and Dean Martin is one of the all time best western movies. Make no mistake, if I were to be rating the movie alone, it would receive 5 stars. It is the strength of this movie that gets 4 stars for this review, but I could not award 5 stars for this Blu-Ray version since that is presumably the reason a person ... Read More
Rating:  - Rio Bravo - a must see
If you like Westerns and have not yet seen "Rio Bravo" - buy/rent it today - you will not be disappointed. Yes, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson costar with John Wayne and Walter Brennan, but it works. Howard Hawks directs this diverse cast in his usual masterful way. The basic plot was so good that it was remade by Hawks as "El Dorado" 8 years later, and others - one example "Assault on Precinct 13". Watch and Enjoy! WP
Rating: - An great example of how good Westerns can be!
This was such a hard film to rate. On one hand you have a Howard Hawkes classic western, starring John Wayne, and with a great supporting cast. And yet, there are a couple of things that do detract from the movie. So after vacillating between 4 and 5 stars, I settled on 4. In reality, I rate it a 4.5.
Rio Bravo is the first, and arguably best, of a trio of western films from Hawkes that many say the latter two (El Dorado & Rio Lobo) were remakes of. While calling those two later films ... Read More
Rating: - Newly rediscovered- and am I ever glad!
I hadn't seen this movie for... well, decades. In fact, I'd pretty much forgotten about it. Sure, I smiled at the reference in GET SHORTY, but I'd pretty much forgotten this one. Then I saw it at Wal Mart for a price too nice to pass up. I bought it and watched it with my wife who had never seen it before. We both loved it.
A little while later I watched my dvd of TRUE GRIT, the film Duke won his only Academy Award for. Good movie, but I thought he was MUCH better in RIO BRAVO (and BIG ... Read More
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