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Rio Bravo
Sign in to save1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks
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7.8A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Cast
- John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance
- Dean Martin as Dude
- Ricky Nelson as Colorado Ryan
- Angie Dickinson as Feathers
- Walter Brennan as Stumpy
- Ward Bond as Pat Wheeler
Themes
- small town
- sheriff
- gun
- marshal
- texas
- deputy
- murder
- jail
- alcoholic
- stagecoach
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Howard Hawks
- Screenplay by
- Jules Furthman Leigh Brackett
- Based on
- "Rio Bravo", by B.H. McCampbell
- Produced by
- Howard Hawks
- Starring
- John Wayne Dean Martin Ricky Nelson Angie Dickinson Walter Brennan Ward Bond John Russell Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez Estelita Rodriguez
- Cinematography
- Russell Harlan
- Edited by
- Folmar Blangsted
- Music by
- Dimitri Tiomkin Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster
- Production company
- Armada Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- April 4, 1959 ( 1959-04-04 )
- Running time
- 141 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English Spanish
- Budget
- $1,214,899
- Box office
- $5.75 million (US and Canada rentals)
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Encyclopedic overview
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 jail until a U.S. marshal can arrive. With the help of a lame old man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter, they hold off the rancher's gang. Rio Bravo was filmed on location at Old Tucson Studios outside Tucson, Arizona, in Eastmancolor, with film processing provided by Technicolor.
In 2014, Rio Bravo was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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