DVD : Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391145349
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 45
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages:
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD114534D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 141 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 04, 1959
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 247 minutes
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: 
- Identity Crisis
I wonder if all the 5-star reviewers saw a different film than the one I watched. This is easily Howard Hawks’ weakest Western and probably one of his worst films overall. The underlying problem is that it’s hard to tell if it is supposed to be a serious film or a spoof; it tries to play on both sides of the fence, and that just doesn’t work.
The Duke’s performance is about average for him, but there seems to be a little spark missing from his acting; I wonder if he was a reluctant … Read More
Rating: 
- good old westerns
In todays hustle and bustle world, it’s nice to occasionally relax and watch an old fashioned western with real “good guys”. This movie is fun entertainment for the whole family and even has a little singing with Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson. I’m so glad we still have movies like this available on disc.
Rating: - Pure Cowboy Slock!
Old Wooden Wayne and twenty-something Angie Dickinson with the most uncomfortable hooey dialog ever written. It was just awful. And Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson as cowboys, come on! Just an awful film. See Wayne in any Maureen O’Hara film, a thousand times better.
Rating: 
- Doesn’t quite live up to the hype
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
I’ve heard a few times that Rio Bravo was an ultra-right-wing response to High Noon. I’m not terribly sure about all that, but having watched the two films without a month or so of each other now, High Noon is the clear winner from the simple standpoint of being a good movie. Because of the back-and-forth, I feel like blaming the message. Problem is, there’s not really much of a message to blame; while Rio Bravo certainly isn’t a bad movie by any standards, … Read More
Rating: - Wonderful Western Classic
The two-disc special edition of Rio Bravo is a classic
“American Western.” John Wayne, Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson,& Walter Brennan spin this classic western yarn. Howard Hawks gives outstanding direction with his artistic expertise. A glimpse into America’s golden movie era. You won’t want to miss the insightful glimpse through Howard Hawk’s genius, as he takes you behind the scenes into movie making. Your western movie collection is incomplete without Howard Hawk’s Rio Bravo. … Read More
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