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Rio Bravo
Directed by
Howard Hawks
Not Rated
1959
2h 21m
Western
8.0
96%
90%
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A 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.
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Cast of Rio Bravo
John Wayne
John Chance
Dean Martin
Dude
Ricky Nelson
Colorado Ryan
Angie Dickinson
Feathers
Walter Brennan
Stumpy
Ward Bond
Pat Wheeler
John Russell
Nathan Burdette
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
Carlos Robante
Estelita Rodriguez
Consuela Robante
Claude Akins
Joe Burdette
Malcolm Atterbury
Jake
Harry Carey, Jr.
Harold
Walter Barnes
Charlie (uncredited)
George Bell
Barfly (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Barfly (uncredited)
Cecil Combs
Barfly (uncredited)
Myron Healey
Barfly (uncredited)
Cactus Mack
Barfly (uncredited)
Mathew McCue
Barfly (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Barfly (uncredited)
Kansas Moehring
Barfly (uncredited)
Jack Perry
Barfly (uncredited)
Danny Sands
Barfly (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Barfly (uncredited)
Bob Whitney
Barfly (uncredited)
Nesdon Booth
(uncredited)
Robert Donner
(uncredited)
Ted White
(uncredited)
George Bruggeman
Clem (uncredited)
Buck Bucko
Barber (uncredited)
Yakima Canutt
Gunman on Horse (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Gunman (uncredited)
Albert Cavens
Henchman (uncredited)
Tom Monroe
Henchman (uncredited)
Fred Graham
2nd Burdette Man in Shootout (uncredited)
Eugene Iglesias
1st Burdette Man in Shootout (uncredited)
Joe Gray
Card Player (uncredited)
Dean Smith
Card-Playing Burdette Henchman (uncredited)
Riley Hill
Messenger (uncredited)
Richard LaMarr
Minor Role (uncredited)
Gordon Mitchell
Bar Cowboy Watching Fistfight (uncredited)
Bob Reeves
Bartender (uncredited)
Bing Russell
Cowboy Murdered in Saloon (uncredited)
Bob Steele
Matt Harris (uncredited)
Bud Cokes
Barfly (uncredited)
David O. McCall
Bartender (uncredited)
Howard Hawks
Director / Producer
Jules Furthman
Writer
Leigh Brackett
Writer
B.H. McCampbell
Writer
Paul Francis Webster
Writer
Rio Bravo Ratings & Reviews
Mister Arn
June 16, 2025
*Rio Bravo* is a Howard Hawks Western stacked with some of the biggest stars of its day, each leaning fully into their familiar personas—Dean Martin as the fallen drunk looking for redemption, John Wayne as the unshakable sheriff, Walter Brennan as the cranky old-timer with a limp, and Angie Dickinson as Feathers, sharp and smoldering. That casting gives the film a lived-in feel; we know these types before they speak a word. There’s nothing groundbreaking here—it’s a classic Western setup with a shootout at the end and the good guys coming out on top—but it’s executed with such confidence and charm, it doesn’t need to surprise to satisfy.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO] "Rio Bravo" (1959) is Howard Hawkes's shamelessly commercial Western.
Parallax View
Richard T. Jameson
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.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Classic Western with superb story telling.
TIME Magazine
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.
Variety
Variety Staff
Rio Bravo is a big, brawling western.
TV Guide
A lengthy, leisurely paced film.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film.
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
Although Rio Bravo rather ambles along, it still has enough good points to make it a genial viewing experience.
Eyes Wide Open
Chris Barsanti
Maybe not a perfect film. But close enough.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
... one Hawks' greatest films, perhaps his masterpiece, and one of the finest westerns of all time.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
No matter what you think of Zinnemann's High Noon (I'm mixed), it's directly responsible for the making of Hawks' most entertaining and classic Western, which displays all of his thematic concerns, such as the emergence of an intimate male camaraderie
New York Times
A.H. Weiler
Despite its slickness, virility, occasional humor and, if it may be repeated, authentic professional approach, it is well-made but awfully familiar fare.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo as a conservative response to the liberal High Noon.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
A comic western that ambles through its two hours and 21 minutes, it always has time to pause for a joke, a song or banter among the characters.
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