Rio Bravo [HD DVD]
by Howard Hawks
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Actor: John WayneDirector: Howard Hawks
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 141 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Rio Bravo [HD DVD]
Movie Review: Howard Hawks and John Wayne--great combination
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently picked up The John Wayne Collection edition of Rio Bravo. I loved the film and thought the special features were well worth the extra money.
I hadn't seen the film in years and I was surprised at how good it is. Many critics rank it high on any list of John Wayne films--or even Westerns in general--but I carried a negative image of the movie due to Ricky Nelson. He was a pop star and teen idol in 1959, and I thought he was unsuited for the role of a gunslinger. Especially with his puffed up, slick hairdo. (He should have kept his hat on, like Yul Brenner in the The Magnificent Seven (Special Edition).) With some years to mellow my biases, I realize Nelson didn't do that bad of a job and the rest of the film certainly out weighed his somewhat thin performance and high-pitched voice.
The Special features are the reason to buy this edition. The John Wayne Westerns Trailer Gallery alone are worth the price of admission. (These were trailers for his films before Stagecoach.) John Carpenter and Richard Schickel do an informative and entertaining commentary, and the featurettes are all worth the time. In fact, I spent three enjoyable nights with the two disc set.
Summary of Rio Bravo [HD DVD]
There's a showdown at Rio Bravo when courageous Sheriff John T. Chance throws the brother of evil cattle baron Nathan Burdette in jail for murder. When Burdette's men lay seige to his jailhouse, Chance holds on until the arrival of a U.S. Marshal with the help of his drunken deputy, Dude, cranky old man Stumpy, and the beautiful long-legged Feathers.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
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