Sheriff John T. Chance has his hands full after arresting Joe Burdette for murder. He knows that Burdette's brother Nathan, a powerful rancher, will go to any lengths to get him out of jail. Chance's good friend Pat Wheeler offers to help but within 20 minutes of making the offer is gunned down in the street, shot in the back. That leaves his elderly deputy Stumpy, the town drunk Dude - once a deputy and a pretty good shot when he was sober - and a young hand, Colorado, who u... (Full plot summary below)
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Sheriff John T. Chance has his hands full after arresting Joe Burdette for murder. He knows that Burdette's brother Nathan, a powerful rancher, will go to any lengths to get him out of jail. Chance's good friend Pat Wheeler offers to help but within 20 minutes of making the offer is gunned down in the street, shot in the back. That leaves his elderly deputy Stumpy, the town drunk Dude - once a deputy and a pretty good shot when he was sober - and a young hand, Colorado, who used to work for Wheeler. Nathan Burdette meanwhile has a couple of dozen men at his disposal. Chance does his best to prepare all the while romancing a pretty gambler who goes by the name of Feathers.
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| Parallax ViewRichard T. JamesonIf Only Angels Have Wings is the foremost masterwork of the director's early period, Rio Bravo is that of the later, even more genial years. |
| Matinee MagazineChuck RudolphMasterful. Archetypal Westerns don't get any better. |
| Filmcritic.comChris BarsantiRio Bravo may not be a perfect film, but it's close enough as to not matter. |
| Radio TimesTony SlomanUnderrated at the time of its release, this majestically paced western is one of the finest achievements of the genre and stands as a career-best for many of its participants. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenDirected by Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo has its fair share of gunfights and saloon showdowns (including a bravura opening confrontation that unfolds with barely any words). Yet the film resembles other Westerns less than it does Hawks’ snappy romances, such as Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and To Have and Have Not. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkIt still has everything a viewer could want from a movie experience. |
| The GuardianTony PaleyOver the course of Rio Bravo we are treated to an entertainment masterclass, a high watermark of Hollywood cinema in its heyday. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe movie is simultaneously an apogee of the classic Western style, with its principled violence in defense of just law, and an eccentrically hyperbolic work of modernism, which yokes both bumptious erotic comedy and soul-searing rawness to the mission. |
| The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsRio Bravo features characters who form a familial bond while performing an impossible task in the face of death. It is, in other words, a Howard Hawks movie. It's a great one, too, and if it's not Hawks' best, it's certainly the most Hawksian. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertTo watch Rio Bravo is to see a master craftsman at work. The film is seamless. There is not a shot that is wrong. It is uncommonly absorbing, and the 141-minute running time flows past like running water. |
