Rio Bravo (1959) Review
Rio Bravo (1959) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Howard Hawks made it as a direct rebuttal to High Noon, which he considered un-American because the marshal asks townspeople for help. It is a hangout film with…
Walter Brennan won Best Supporting Actor three times, for Come and Get It, Kentucky and The Westerner, which no male performer has matched.
He lost most of his teeth in an accident and used the dentures selectively, removing them to play characters decades older than he was, which is how he spent his thirties playing old men.
Sergeant York, My Darling Clementine, Rio Bravo and To Have and Have Not fill out an enormous filmography, and he worked repeatedly for Howard Hawks.
Angie DickinsonRio Bravo (1959) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Howard Hawks made it as a direct rebuttal to High Noon, which he considered un-American because the marshal asks townspeople for help. It is a hangout film with…
Barbara StanwyckMeet John Doe is Frank Capra's 1941 American political drama about a newspaper columnist who invents a fictional everyman who threatens to commit suicide on Christmas Eve in protest against social injustice, and who must then find a real person…
Gary CooperSergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.
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