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.
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
25 May 1926, Nelson, Georgia, USA
27 April 1923, Ree, South Dakota, USA
20 February 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
June 1, 1908 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
1 October 1906, Brussels, Belgium
16 February 1905, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
July 29, 1923 in Denver, Colorado, USA
27 May 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 October 1901, Dracut, Massachusetts, USA
16 May 1921, Saugus, California, USA
24 May 1925, Aguilares, Texas, USA
26 October 1908, Springer, New Mexico, USA
13 July 1928, Dayton, Ohio, USA
25 January 1926, Texas, USA
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
12 May 1913, Montana, USA
16 November 1891, Colusa, California, USA
10 May 1919, near Shannon, Clay County, Texas, USA
6 September 1904, Bari, Puglia, Italy
4 October 1895, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 January 1907, Portland, Oregon, USA
24 August 1912, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
15 January 1932, Breckenridge, Texas, USA
30 September 1931, Kulm, North Dakota, USA
6 November 1895, Italy
3 January 1921, Los Angeles, California, USA
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
August 29, 2011
[VIDEO] "Rio Bravo" (1959) is Howard Hawkes's shamelessly commercial Western.
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.
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.
May 13, 2008
Rio Bravo is a big, brawling western.
March 05, 2017
Rio Bravo isn't a Fordian display of vast Western visas; the contours explored here are emotional.
May 13, 2008
Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
