Remakes are part and parcel of the movie world, but it’s unusual for the same director to remake his own work. Rio Bravo is unique. Director Howard Hawks remade it, not once, but twice, and with ...

In the final decade or so of his career, Hawks made three Westerns with more or less the same plot: Rio Bravo in 1959, El Dorado in 1966, and 1970’s Rio Lobo.All three star John Wayne, and ...

John Wayne and director Howard Hawks may have been at their best in the 1959 western ... remains the 1959 masterpiece “Rio Bravo,” which Warners is releasing Tuesday in both a two-disc set ...

Rio Bravo is an American Western film directed by Howard Hawks, from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman. Based on the short story Rio Bravo by B.H. McCampbell, the plot concerns ...

The ‘Rio Bravo’ dynamite final shootout was Howard Hawks’ daughter’s idea According to 1977 Movietone News interview, Hawks talked about the climactic finish.

“Rio Bravo” is the kind of movie that is easy to take for granted.Directed by Howard Hawks, the Western stars an eclectic cast of actors, including John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson ...

But Howard Hawks's "Rio Bravo," which had its premiere half a century ago this month, may be the most popular cult film ever made. The phrase "cult favorite" conjures up images of wobbly hand-held ...

In 1970 the publicity machine was knocking itself dead, extolling Howard Hawks's "Rio Lobo" even before it was finished. Much was made of Hawks being reunited with saddle pard John Wayne, with ...

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