Rio Bravo (1959 film)

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Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne as a small-town sheriff defending his jail against a powerful rancher’s hired guns.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American film
Western film
film
aspectRatio 1.85:1
basedOn short story "Rio Bravo" by B. H. McCampbell
cinematographyBy Russell Harlan NERFINISHED
colorProcess Technicolor
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Howard Hawks
distributedInFormat 35 mm film
distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
editedBy Folmar Blangsted
filmEditingStyle Hollywood films
surface form: classical Hollywood cinema
filmingLocation Old Tucson Studios
surface form: Old Tucson Studios, Arizona
genre Western
action
hasCharacter Colorado Ryan
Dude
Feathers
Stumpy
hasReception widely regarded as one of Howard Hawks’s finest films
hasTheme duty
friendship
redemption
mainCharacter Sheriff John T. Chance
musicBy Dimitri Tiomkin
notableSong "Cindy"
"My Rifle, My Pony and Me"
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A small-town sheriff holds a powerful rancher’s brother in jail and must defend the jail against the rancher’s hired guns until help arrives.
portrayedBy Angie Dickinson
Dean Martin
John Wayne
Ricky Nelson
Walter Brennan
Ward Bond
producer Howard Hawks
Leonard Goldstein
productionCompany Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.
releaseDate March 18, 1959
releaseYear 1959
runtimeMinutes 141
screenwriter Jules Furthman
Leigh Brackett
setIn Texas
starring Angie Dickinson
Dean Martin
John Wayne
Ricky Nelson
Walter Brennan
Ward Bond

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Jules Furthman notableWork Rio Bravo (1959 film)
Rio Bravo basedOn Rio Bravo (1959 film)
this entity surface form: short story "Rio Bravo"
Walter Brennan notableWork Rio Bravo (1959 film)
this entity surface form: 'Rio Bravo' (1959 film)
Bob Steele notableWork Rio Bravo (1959 film)
Bob Steele appearedIn Rio Bravo (1959 film)
Leigh Brackett notableWork Rio Bravo (1959 film)
this entity surface form: Rio Bravo (screenplay)
Leigh Brackett workedOn Rio Bravo (1959 film)
Old Tucson Studios filmingLocationFor Rio Bravo (1959 film)
this entity surface form: “Rio Bravo” (1959 film)
B. H. McCampbell workAdaptedAs Rio Bravo (1959 film)
this entity surface form: "Rio Bravo"