Rio Bravo (1959)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Overrated and overhyped

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The Western is not my favourite genre, but when I run across one made with the skill and genius of Howard Hawks, I just sit back and let the story unfold. Two and one-half hours may be excessive for some, but the story really needs to be told without time constraints (Budd Boetticher would have done it in little more than an hour, and it would have been poorer for that). I liked the way Hawks kept the story within the confines of the town, not bothering to soak up the magnificent scenery so beloved of Ford and Mann.Russell Harlan's fine camera-work serves to increase the tension throughout (Harlan did To Kill a Mockingbird, Witness for the Prosecution and many more fine pictures). The performances are excellent. Many have said Dean Martin has never been better--he outdoes himself here, makes me reflect on how good he was in Some Came Running. Angie Dickinson gives a tremendous performance as Feathers; she seems assured for much of the time, yet there is an underlying insecurity. We keep waiting for her to get on the stagecoach and she never does. Walter Brennan gives a lovely impression of Dogberry from Much Ado About Nothing--endearing confusion. John Wayne is still handsome at 52, and carries himself with that assurance we knew so well. His acting skills were never the point. If Ricky Nelson is hardly a great actor, he is a capable one. I liked the way he says "I speak English, sheriff" as a form of introduction to Chance.

This Western movie works in large part because of the interaction of the main three characters: John Chance the town sheriff, Dude as an alcoholic cowboy trying to get clean, and Stumpy as an elderly cripple who serves in the sheriff's office. They argue and spar throughout the movie, adding much comic relief to an otherwise conventional story.Joe Burnett is a powerful local rancher who kills an innocent bystander during a fight he provoked, and is arrested and taken to the town jail for it, where the sheriff and the deputized Dude and Stumpy hold him in wait for the marshal. They hold off the rancher's brother and his hired hands, while in the meantime an old friend of Chance comes to town with his group, as well as a woman named Feathers who is a card player and possible cheater. The questions are whether Chance and company can hold off the hired hands, and whether Dude can stay clean and competent as he withdraws from his alcoholism, and how good is Stumpy with his health problems anyway. Also what is the story with Colorado, the young man who came with the supply train, and will he get involved? Not until after watching the movie did I learn about this movie being a deliberate answer to "High Noon", where that sheriff kept going to the townspeople begging them for help, only they were too cowardly. Chance is different; he refuses outside help but gets it anyway. A more convincing scenario when you think about it.

Good film but way too long. I started getting really bored with the romance part of the movie -- it was an annoying interruption of great scenes & the plot and really didn't add much to it other than that --- annoyance. Subtract a couple of the parrying between Wayne & Dickinson's characters and the movie would have flowed better and not dragged on so much! Any viewer can see where the argumentative stuff between the two will lead to. Yawn. Ricky Nelson & Dean Martin clearly cast to show off their warbling capabilities...Martin was great, but missing some of his fire & panache from previous films. Nelson -- well, he's just sorta pretty to look at of course. Walter Brennan returns in a familiar casting role -- cantankerous, backtalking, usual role -- so I found that regrettably boring as well, since Brennan's range of acting far outreaches that particular typecasting. So, yeah. A typical Western that is quite dim in comparison to High Noon's plot.

Perhaps Howard Hawks' most acclaimed film Rio Bravo is not really that bad of a western movie but there was only just one problem that I had while watching this movie and that was the overrated performance by Angie Dickinson. Otherwise it was a good movie, and what a decent cast for a western movie which includes some of his Red River stars John Wayne and Walter Brennan, who end up teaming with Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and the man who ends up in most of Wayne's films Ward Bond. The movie goes on a par with western movie greats such as High Noon, Unforgiven, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Big Country, Pale Rider, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Winchester 73, The Naked Spur, The Cowboys, The Sons of Katie Elder, True Grit, The Shootist, and as I mentioned earlier Red River. Director Howard Hawks made this movie what it really is but it is not a great movie it is a good movie and a near masterpiece.