Rio Bravo
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.
8 September 1893, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
2 July 1928, Guanajay, Cuba
24 August 1912, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
March 20, 1914 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA
May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
7 June 1917, Steubenville, Ohio, USA
May 21, 1914 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA
24 October 1901, Dracut, Massachusetts, USA
29 November 1895, Colfax, Washington, USA
10 May 1919, near Shannon, Clay County, Texas, USA
9 April 1903, Benkelman, Nebraska, USA
9 October 1898, Amarillo, Texas, USA
25 May 1926, Nelson, Georgia, USA
June 1, 1908 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2 September 1919, Waco, Texas, USA
6 September 1904, Bari, Puglia, Italy
5 May 1926, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
August 8, 1899 in Weed, New Mexico, USA
13 July 1912, New York City, New York, USA
3 January 1921, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 November 1895, Italy
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
3 December 1926, San Juan, Puerto Rico
6 January 1900
1 November 1904, Antwerp, Belgium
26 January 1891, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
13 July 1928, Dayton, Ohio, USA
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
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.
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
March 05, 2017
Rio Bravo isn't a Fordian display of vast Western visas; the contours explored here are emotional.
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.
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.
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.
May 13, 2008
Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film.
August 29, 2011
[VIDEO] "Rio Bravo" (1959) is Howard Hawkes's shamelessly commercial Western.
May 13, 2008
Rio Bravo is a big, brawling western.
