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| Rio Bravo [Blu-ray] | ![Rio Bravo [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C2r%2B9DDvL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, John Wayne
Studio: Warner Brothers
Category: DVD
List Price: $28.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (149 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10946
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original Recording Remastered, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Running Time: 247 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 114272
UPC: 085391142720
EAN: 0085391142720
ASIN: B000P6XU5G
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: April 4, 1959
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
There's a showdown at Rio Bravo when courageous Sheriff John T. Chance throws the brother of evil cattle baron Nathan Burdette in jail for murder. When Burdette's men lay seige to his jailhouse Chance holds on until the arrival of a U.S. Marshal with the help of his drunken deputy Dude cranky old man Stumpy and the beautiful long-legged Feathers.Running Time: 141 min.Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: WESTERN/MISC. UPC: 085391142720 Manufacturer No: 114272
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When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: John Ford's The Searchers, Howard Hawks's Red River, and Hawks's Rio Bravo. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River is a sweeping cattle-drive drama ("Take 'em to Missouri! Yeeee-hah!"), Rio Bravo is on a much more modest scale. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T. Chance (Wayne), his sobering-up alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black cofee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally, singin' a song. Hawks--who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of "grace under pressure"--said he made Rio Bravo as a rebuke to High Noon, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional--he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. This most entertaining of movies also achieved some notoriety in the '90s when Quentin Tarantino (director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Jackie Brown) revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. Oh, and if the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade Rio Bravo two more times--as El Dorado in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as Rio Lobo in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. --Jim Emerson
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| Customer Reviews: Read 144 more reviews...
 Newly rediscovered- and am I ever glad! June 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hadn't seen this movie for... well, decades. In fact, I'd pretty much forgotten about it. Sure, I smiled at the reference in GET SHORTY, but I'd pretty much forgotten this one. Then I saw it at Wal Mart for a price too nice to pass up. I bought it and watched it with my wife who had never seen it before. We both loved it.
A little while later I watched my dvd of TRUE GRIT, the film Duke won his only Academy Award for. Good movie, but I thought he was MUCH better in RIO BRAVO (and BIG JAKE for that matter). I watched RIO BRAVO again and was so impressed by the subtlety of his performance. That's something people don't remember John Wayne for. Usually we point out his swagger and his whole "tough guy" persona. I think that sells him short- especially in RIO BRAVO. Is it Duke's best? Tough call. It's hard to top THE QUIET MAN and THE SEARCHERS. I think... yes, I must say it. RIO BRAVO is, in my opinion, his best performance.
Bt BIG JAKE is still my favorite of his films.
The bonus features on this dvd are well worth it as well. In all I think this is a very nice package.
Howard Hawks/John Wayne classic May 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A decade after RED RIVER, Wayne and Hawks reteam on this powerhouse western (which Wayne and Hawks remake nearly a decade later with EL DORADO -- when Leigh Brackett (scripter on both) told Wayne and Hawks it was the same story Wayne responded, "It worked once, it'll work again." Dean Martin as the alcoholic "Dude", Ricky Nelson as fast-draw Colorado and Walter Brennan as "Stumpy". Hawks opens the movie without a word of dialogue in the first five minutes. Note: the man Claude Akins shoots dead in the bar in the beginning is Bing Russell, father of Kurt Russell! A very young Angie Dickinson, John Russell as Burdette, fun fair for all. Also constant Wayne co-star Ward Bond.
the duke May 27, 2008
i love this movie 10 star not 5 it was the first hd dvd i bought allstar cast
Classic Buddy Western May 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A buddy Western in the most classic sense. John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson at their very best. Angie Dickinson was terrific in her supporting role. The story was believable and the scenery very good.
Don't Know Why.... May 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...I like this movie so much, but it's fun and it has John Wayne. They all looked like they were having a good time.
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