Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Special Edition)

In the dusty town of Rio Bravo, Sheriff Chance arrests Joe Burdette for a brutal murder and must fight off ruthless gunmen to keep him in custody untiWhen 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 p

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