Rio Bravo
In this film, the mayor of Rio Bravo, Texas faces a different fate when a brother of a powerful pastoral farm is arrested. This man is trying to accomplish his mission with the help of a paraplegic, drunk in the city, and a young fighter who aspires to achieve more.
16 May 1921, Saugus, California, USA
29 November 1895, Colfax, Washington, USA
1 October 1906, Brussels, Belgium
25 September 1926, Fincastle, Virginia, USA
July 9, 1897 in St. Marys, Ohio, USA
May 7, 1901 in Durango, Mexico
16 February 1905, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1 November 1904, Antwerp, Belgium
May 01, 2011
If Only Angels Have Wings is the foremost masterwork of the director's early period, Rio Bravo is that of the later, even more genial years.
May 13, 2008
Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film.
April 23, 2013
The movie is simultaneously an apogee of the classic Western style, with its principled violence in defense of just law, and an eccentrically hyperbolic work of modernism, which yokes both bumptious erotic comedy and soul-searing rawness to the mission.
April 23, 2013
Underrated at the time of its release, this majestically paced western is one of the finest achievements of the genre and stands as a career-best for many of its participants.
April 27, 2009
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.
April 23, 2013
Warm, witty and endlessly welcoming, not only is it the filmmaker's finest Oater -- better even than the sparkling Red River -- it's arguably the quintessential Hawks flick.
March 25, 2006
Despite its slickness, virility, occasional humor and, if it may be repeated, authentic professional approach, it is well-made but awfully familiar fare.
April 23, 2013
A definitive piece of Americana by way of Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo is what the late 1950s studio system was all about
May 13, 2008
Rio Bravo is a big, brawling western.
August 29, 2011
[VIDEO] "Rio Bravo" (1959) is Howard Hawkes's shamelessly commercial Western.
March 05, 2017
Rio Bravo isn't a Fordian display of vast Western visas; the contours explored here are emotional.
April 23, 2013
To watch Rio Bravo is to see a master craftsman at work. The film is seamless. There is not a shot that is wrong. It is uncommonly absorbing, and the 141-minute running time flows past like running water.
