Rio Bravo | John Wayne, Dean Martin

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Rio Bravo

	Rio Bravo John Wayne, Dean Martin Warner Home Video, 1993 average customer review:based on 157 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Rio Bravo

This is what the Duke was all about. It's one of my top 100 movies of all time, an essential, a must see & own. John Wayne, as always, portrays himself; Dean Martin is Dude, a drunk trying to recover; Ricky Nelson is Colorado, a young gunslinger; &, finally, Walter Brennan is Stumpy, an over the hill cripple. Angie Dickinson is the female lead who's sexy with a past that borders on outlaw. With the exception of Ricky Nelson the acting is great. Ricky was cast in this movie because he was a hot item in rock & roll, casting simply took advantage of his then current status. Mr. Nelson wasn't an actor & his portrayal of Colorado is one of the most wooden in Hollywood history.
Walter Brennan all but steals the film as Stumpy. He's cantankerous, ornery & resentful; those are his good qualities. Dean Martin as Dude plays a not so unusual role as a drunk who has seen better days; a role he had played before in other movies.
A great supporting cast includes John Russell ("The Lawman" TV series), Gonzalez Gonzalez & Ward Bond ("Wagon Train" TV series). The film is directed by the great Howard Hawks, who had many outstanding movies to his credit.
GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!!

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Blu-Ray Reviews Please

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Will you place post Blu-Ray DVD Reviews only and not Standard DVD Reviews!

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The movie is Howard Hawks' and John Wayne's follow up to Red River and when taken together must be considered the Best of the genre.

In my opinion this edition is too dark. The original while not of perfect quality is brighter and very enjoyable.

Good, but it has short-comings

Rio Bravo is my favorite Duke movie and I could sit here all day and review it. So I am soley reviewing the DVD treatment.

FILM TRANSFER

Someone said previously that this 'new' transfer was darker than the previous bare bones DVD. I had my doubts but it's the truth. I took screencaps of both versions, compared them and this one is definitely darker. The other version even seems slightly sharper. This is my biggest beef with this release.

COMMENTARY w/ RICHARD SCHICKEL & JOHN CARPENTER

For being a film historian/critic, Richard Schickel is extremely boring and I couldn't totally trust anything he said after he called the Duke's rifle a pump-action. He also said "Hawksian" so often that I don't care to hear the word ever again. Both him and Carpenter are essentially repeating what they say in the featurettes. It is more about Hawks than Rio Bravo. Angie Dickinson or someone who worked on the film would have been much better, providing us with some stories.

THE MEN WHO MADE MOVIES: HOWARD HAWKS

The Howard Hawks featurette is pretty interesting and I learned alot (although it has been pointed out as a double-dip also apearing on another Hawks' DVD.)

COMMEMORATION: HOWARD HAWKS' RIO BRAVO

Excellent featurette with alot of interviews including Angie Dickinson. Very well produced. I will probably watch it again in the future, which is more than I can say for most making-ofs.

OLD TUCSON: WHERE THE LEGENDS WALKED

This shorter featurette was neat. I never even knew about Old Tucson and it was pretty fascinating. This and 'Commemoration' are in widescreen which is hard to come by in featurettes of older movies.

JOHN WAYNE TRAILER GALLERY

Trailers from his lesser-known earlier films including The Big Stampede, Haunted Gold, Somewhere in Sonora, The Man From Monterey and Rio Bravo (of course). It doesn't make much sense to have these on Disc 1 when the rest of the special features are on Disc 2.

This Two-Disc Special Edition comes with some nice production photos. If you want more of the physical stuff like that, buy the Ultimate Collector's Edition.

The film itself is unquestionably 5 stars. But I had to knock off 1 star due to the inferior transfer, pointless commentary and overall awkward layout. I'll keep my bare bones release for the better transfer and this too for the special features.

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Rio Bravo - Good Movie

Another John Wayne Classic. It was great movie. I am sure I will watch it over and over again.

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