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July 16, 2013

Rio Bravo

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High Noon is about a town trying (and failing) to make the transition from frontier outpost to civilized community.  Rio Bravo isgoverned by a different vision of the West, in which community in that sense is irrelevant — individual initiative and responsibility are the central and decisive issues. RIO BRAVO | mardecortésbaja.com

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 16, 2013 12:57 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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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

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