Chaplin
Better off silent
Since Westerns seem to be making a small comeback (with Deadwood popular on HBO and Open Range getting a good response), I though I'd throw out one of the better Westerns ever made.
Quite simply, Rio Bravo - along with Stagecoach, The Searchers and perhaps She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Shootist and True Grit - is one of the Duke's greatest roles. John Wayne plays Sheriff John Chance, a hardened lawman bolstered by a deputy corps that includes Dean Martin as a drunk, and the always great (and cackling) Walter Brennan as Stumpy.
Chance arrests Joe Burdett, a notorious vagabond, but whose brother is one fo the richest men in the area of Rio Bravo, the town where the movie is based. What follows is plenty of standoffs, gunfights and fisticuffs. Young Ricky Nelson (from Ozzie & Harriet) lured the teenage girls, playing the young hired gun of Ward Bond's trail boss. A young Angie Dickinson plays the love interest--the Duke always got the girls.
The film is exactly what you'd expect a classic Western to be--full of many of the cliches we now know to be standard, and yet able to address them in ways that are totally acceptable. Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson even get to sing.
1959 was an extremely entertaining year, with Ben-Hur and Some Like It Hot two of the most notable releases, along with this hugely entertaining film. For people that believe that entertainment is the main reason to watch a movie, this one definitely doesn't disappoint.
Quite simply, Rio Bravo - along with Stagecoach, The Searchers and perhaps She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Shootist and True Grit - is one of the Duke's greatest roles. John Wayne plays Sheriff John Chance, a hardened lawman bolstered by a deputy corps that includes Dean Martin as a drunk, and the always great (and cackling) Walter Brennan as Stumpy.
Chance arrests Joe Burdett, a notorious vagabond, but whose brother is one fo the richest men in the area of Rio Bravo, the town where the movie is based. What follows is plenty of standoffs, gunfights and fisticuffs. Young Ricky Nelson (from Ozzie & Harriet) lured the teenage girls, playing the young hired gun of Ward Bond's trail boss. A young Angie Dickinson plays the love interest--the Duke always got the girls.
The film is exactly what you'd expect a classic Western to be--full of many of the cliches we now know to be standard, and yet able to address them in ways that are totally acceptable. Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson even get to sing.
1959 was an extremely entertaining year, with Ben-Hur and Some Like It Hot two of the most notable releases, along with this hugely entertaining film. For people that believe that entertainment is the main reason to watch a movie, this one definitely doesn't disappoint.
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