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Rio Bravo (1959)

Directed by Howard Hawks

Western | Drama

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Overview

The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher’s hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.

Rated NR | Length 141 minutes

Actors

John Wayne | Dean Martin | Angie Dickinson | Walter Brennan | Ricky Nelson | Ward Bond | John Russell | Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez | Estelita Rodriguez | Claude Akins | Malcolm Atterbury | Harry Carey, Jr. | Walter Barnes | George Bell | Noble Chissell | Cecil Combs | Myron Healey | Cactus Mack | Mathew McCue | Frank Mills | Kansas Moehring | Jack Perry | Danny Sands | Sailor Vincent | Bob Whitney | Nesdon Booth | Robert Donner | Ted White | George Bruggeman | Ralph Bucko | Yakima Canutt | Chuck Roberson | Albert Cavens | Tom Monroe | Fred Graham | Eugene Iglesias | Joe Gray | Dean Smith | Riley Hill | Richard LaMarr | Gordon Mitchell | Bob Reeves | Bing Russell | Bob Steele | Bud Cokes | David O. McCall

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Viewing Notes

I’ve seen portions of this movie so many times it felt like I’d seen the whole thing, but I’d never caught the beginning and some key scenes in the first half, including some of the Angie Dickenson stuff. Great cast but Walter Brennan is tops as old Stumpy!

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