After a stint with less favorable s post-'The Searchers', John Wayne teamed up with director Howard Hawks to create 'Rio Bravo', a retort to the 1952 Western 'High Noon', which Wayne publicly labeled ...
The Unique Role of John Wayne in 'Rio Bravo' When John Wayne returned to the Western genre with 'Rio Bravo', he was far from the one-dimensional hero audiences had grown accustomed to. At the age of ...