Subsequently , Howard Hawks shot ¨El Dorado¨ in similar style with a hot-headed James Caan as Mississipi who is a virtual retreat of the previous young sidekick named Colorado-Ricky Nelson . Howard ...

In the world of classic films, few names shine as brightly as John Wayne’s, and one of his most beloved westerns is ‘Rio Bravo.’ Released in 1959, this film was not just another cowboy movie; it ...

John Wayne and sometime crooners Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson star in Howard Hawks' seminal western Rio Bravo. It wasn't just a landmark in the genre, but a masterful exercise in suspense that ...

The Criterion Collection’s release lets viewers revisit the director’s 1932 vision of ambition and violence in the Prohibition-era underworld.

John Wayne's character introduction in Stagecoach made him a movie star, but his intro in a bloody 1971 Western might just best that classic scene.

Seven years later, The Duke headlined Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo, which carried a very similar storyline. In his western, the actor’s John T Chance is a small-town sheriff forced to repel an incoming ...

He continued: “I watched Rio Bravo and thought, ‘Wait a minute, that’s the movie I saw with my great-grandma.’ There are all kinds of things that are so wonderful, yes it’s one of the greatest ...

“Rio Bravo” (dir. Howard Hawks, 1959) The third Hawks film on Carpenter’s ballot, “Rio Bravo” is the director’s most famous western.

Rio Bravo (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, not rated, 1.85:1 aspect ratio, 141 minutes, $33.99) — Legendary Academy Award-winning director Howard Hawks went back to the Old West again in 1959 ...

John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo, a film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws, in 1966’s El Dorado. Yet Howard Hawks, who directed both of those films, wanted to ...

Rio Bravo, 1959. Directed by Howard Hawks. Starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Pedro Gonzalez ...

The 1959 American Western film is directed by Howard Hawks. The screenplay is by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett and is based on the short story “Rio Bravo” by B.H. McCampbell.