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Rio Bravo (1959)

Name: Rio Bravo
Director: Howard Hawks
Genre: Western film, buddy film, romance film
Rating: 7.9

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…

Directed by Howard Hawks · Shot by Russell Harlan · Cut by Folmar Blangsted · Music by Dimitri Tiomkin

Behind the scenes

John Carpenter on "Rio Bravo" — filmSCHOOLarchive · 7 min

Elsewhere

More by Howard Hawks

A Little Princess — 1917
In Again, Out Again — 1917
Go and Get It — 1920
The Road to Glory — 1926
Fig Leaves — 1926
Paid to Love — 1927
Cradle Snatchers — 1927
The Air Circus — 1928
Fazil — 1928
A Girl in Every Port — 1928
Trent's Last Case — 1929
The Dawn Patrol — 1930
The Criminal Code — 1930
Scarface — 1932
Tiger Shark — 1932
La foule hurle — 1932
The Crowd Roars — 1932
Today We Live — 1933
The Prizefighter and the Lady — 1933
Viva Villa! — 1934
Twentieth Century — 1934
Barbary Coast — 1935
Ceiling Zero — 1936
Come and Get It — 1936
The Road to Glory — 1936
Sutter's Gold — 1936
Bringing Up Baby — 1938
Only Angels Have Wings — 1939
His Girl Friday — 1940
Ball of Fire — 1941

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