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July 16, 2013
Rio Bravo
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Hatari! is my favorite Howard Hawks movie, and comes with an awesome Henry Mancini soundtrack to boot.
Rio Bravo is great too, and I think has one of my favorite lines referring to Dean Martin's character as a "drunk with a star pinned to it," although that might have come from El Dorado, another John Wayne/Howard Hawks western classic.
Posted by: stephen b at July 16, 2013 1:20 PM
And yet of all the Wayne movies, IMO Rio Bravo is one of the suckiest, mainly because Dean Martin just simply idiotic in it.
Posted by: Donald Sensing at July 16, 2013 2:57 PM
Whoa, Mr. Sensing, you're treading on thin ice. If you had said, Ricky Nelson or Angie Dickinson, I might let you slide. Dean Martin did a great job, I simply won't hear anything else, and your apology is accepted.
Posted by: mushroom at July 16, 2013 7:52 PM
El Dorado is my preferred version of the story. Robert Mitchum and James Caan carry off their roles better than Dean Martin or the stunt-cast Ricky Nelson.
Posted by: phlyarologist at July 16, 2013 8:24 PM