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Rio Bravo
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Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman, with Dimitri Tiomkin composing the score. The cast includes John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, and Angie Dickinson. The film was produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Armada Productions, and filmed in California and Arizona. Its narrative is set in Texas, and the original languages are English and Spanish.
The movie runs for 141 minutes and was released on March 8, 1959. It has a runtime of 136 minutes according to some records. The film received a budget of 1,200,000 and generated revenue of 5,750,000. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix.
Rio Bravo is categorized as a buddy film, Western film, and romance film, with alcoholism as a main subject. It received a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film. The film holds a rating of 7.9 on IMDb and 7.809 on TMDb.
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Film · TMDB
7.8A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Cast
- John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance
- Dean Martin as Dude
- Ricky Nelson as Colorado Ryan
- Angie Dickinson as Feathers
- Walter Brennan as Stumpy
- Ward Bond as Pat Wheeler
Themes
- small town
- sheriff
- gun
- marshal
- texas
- deputy
- murder
- jail
- alcoholic
- stagecoach
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Howard Hawks
- Screenplay by
- Jules Furthman Leigh Brackett
- Based on
- "Rio Bravo", by B.H. McCampbell
- Produced by
- Howard Hawks
- Starring
- John Wayne Dean Martin Ricky Nelson Angie Dickinson Walter Brennan Ward Bond John Russell Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez Estelita Rodriguez
- Cinematography
- Russell Harlan
- Edited by
- Folmar Blangsted
- Music by
- Dimitri Tiomkin Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster
- Production company
- Armada Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- April 4, 1959 ( 1959-04-04 )
- Running time
- 141 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English Spanish
- Budget
- $1,214,899
- Box office
- $5.75 million (US and Canada rentals)
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Encyclopedic overview
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 jail until a U.S. marshal can arrive. With the help of a lame old man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter, they hold off the rancher's gang. Rio Bravo was filmed on location at Old Tucson Studios outside Tucson, Arizona, in Eastmancolor, with film processing provided by Technicolor.
In 2014, Rio Bravo was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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