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The film tells the story of the sheriff of the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, who arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher with the help of a cripple, a town drunk, and a young gunfighter.
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
26 January 1891, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
24 October 1901, Dracut, Massachusetts, USA
10 April 1921, Erick, Oklahoma, USA
25 January 1926, Texas, USA
5 May 1926, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
3 January 1921, Los Angeles, California, USA
July 29, 1923 in Denver, Colorado, USA
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8 May 1940, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
30 September 1931, Kulm, North Dakota, USA
13 July 1912, New York City, New York, USA
9 October 1898, Amarillo, Texas, USA
May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
16 November 1891, Colusa, California, USA
3 December 1926, San Juan, Puerto Rico
16 February 1905, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
27 May 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 January 1892, Marlin, Texas, USA
May 7, 1901 in Durango, Mexico
23 January 1907, Portland, Oregon, USA
25 September 1926, Fincastle, Virginia, USA
4 October 1895, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 September 1918, Baker, Oregon, USA
26 May 1907, Winterset, Iowa, USA
13 July 1928, Dayton, Ohio, USA
26 October 1908, Springer, New Mexico, USA
1 October 1906, Brussels, Belgium
March 05, 2017
Rio Bravo isn't a Fordian display of vast Western visas; the contours explored here are emotional.
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.
May 13, 2008
Rio Bravo is a big, brawling western.
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.
May 13, 2008
Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film.
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.
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 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 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
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.
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.
