Rio Bravo (1959) Movie REACTION!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- (RE-UPLOADED) For Film Friday #75, Madison watches Rio Bravo for the first time.
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The fact that Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson, absolutely great singers, legends yet years a part, had a moment to sing a duet, in a western was and is a stroke of genuine artistic direction.
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Thank you so much!!💖
I don't know if John Wayne could sing but, with the unique way he spoke, I can imagine him doing hipster jazz poetry reading like Mike Myers in So I Married An Axe Murderer. "Wooooooooo-man! Well, I'll tell ya."
Rick Nelson was part of the Nelson family that had their own TV series (and before that, a radio series), called The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Rick, or Ricky Nelson as he was then known, literally grew up on the long-running show. The radio show ran 10 years with Ricky joining in 1949 for the last three, and then he started with the TV series which ran 14 seasons! And, in the process, he became a teen heartthrob and it lead to a recording career. Rick placed 54 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 (or equivalent) between 1957 and 1973. Rio Bravo couldn't resist pairing Rick with Dean for a song. Rick tragically died in a plane crash (he was a passenger) in 1985 on the way to a New Year's Eve concert where he was to perform.
You’ve no doubt heard it several times, but if you’re really going to delve into Westerns you MUST see ‘The Searchers’, also featuring Wayne. One of the foremost classics.
She saw before starting the channel.
@@jackmessick2869 OK, then she should do Red River.
@@glennwisniewski9536 agreed.
Dang right
Red River and the Searchers he should have won an Oscar for
So now you really need to watch “Support Your Local Sheriff” a comedy closely resembling this story. It has Walter Brennan (Stumpy) in it. Also a bunch of great character actors. Do yourself the favor.
YES! With James Garner aka James Rockford and Bruce Dern a definite must!! ☮️
"Stumpy" is Walter Brennan. A very famous and beloved actor in his day. He was also in "Sgt. York" starring Gary Cooper. A true story about a conscientious objector in WWI who came from mountain people in rural Tennessee and became a WWI hero.
Only actor to ever win three supporting acting oscars, I believe.
Sitcom also, THE REAL McCOYS, with Richard Crenna (Rambo's commanding officer, Troutman).
And Sgt York has a love story to it too. What a great movie!! I want to go see the York home in TN.
@@JohnBullard Yes.
Always liked The Guns of Will Sonnet TV series.
"The Girl," Angie Dickinson's character is nicknamed "Feathers."
Rick Nelson, who played Colorado, was an extremely competent rock star. He had a lot of good songs.
Oh, one more thing. A few years later the director, Howard Hawks virtually remade "Rio Bravo" with the extremely similar "El Dorado," which is also good.
I think Eldorado is better. Robert Michum does a marvelous job as the drunk sheriff.
@@donfite9269 , Mitchum, was a better actor than, Dean Martin, but nobody wants to hear him sing, and for a singer, Dean was a pretty good actor.
@@shawnj1966 Mitchum had a Billboard top 100 hit with "The Ballad of Thunder Road", which he co-wrote.
@@donfite9269Arthur Hunnicut was good, too
Another interesting fact is that Johnny Cash wrote a song for Ricky Nelson, but it was not included in the movie. Nelson did record it. The song is titled "Restless Kid".
Two of my favorite Walter Brennon movies: he was Judge Roy Bean in “The Westerner” with Gary Cooper and I always liked his part; the alcoholic sidekick, Eddie; in “To have and Have Not” with Bogart and Bacall.
I think that the point is not that Chance is in denial about needing help but that he understands that a few dedicated professionals can do more than a lot of amateurs worried about their families. The theme of professionalism runs through most of Howard Hawk's movies.
An excellent John Wayne non-western is "The Sands of Iwo Jima."
First for this repost!!!
Though not a western, I would like to suggest the war drama "In Harm's Way" (1965) starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, and Burgess Meredith.
Glad to see this back...
Walter Brennan (Stumpy) played a lot of character roles in westerns, and had his own TV show in the late 1950s/early 1960s. He had another funny role in Red River (Howard Hawks film with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift) as the trail cook.
Walter Brennan is one of only three male actors to win at least 3 Academy Awards, all before 1940.
Almost forgot: he sang a top 20 hit in 1962, "Old Rivers."
The first guy who gets killed in the bar was played by Bing Russell, Kurt Russel's dad. This movie is also filled with some of the best western character actors of the time.
Yeah, Claude Akins (Joe Burdett) was in a number of movies and tv shows as a bad guy, including several appearances on Gunsmoke.
Love Rio Bravo, but my favourite movie with John Wayne is The Sons of Katie Elder. I don't know how often I watched The Sons of Katie Elder since I was a child about 55 years ago. My parents loved this movie and I love it too. Good chemistry between the Duke and Dean Martin again!
You should react to The Big Country with Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Chuck Connors, and Charles Bickford.
Dean and Ricky singing together is the highlight of a truly classic movie!
The actor playing Wheeler was Duke’s good friend, Ward Bond. He was also in The Quiet Man, as the priest with a passion for fishing. Lol
He died shortly after Rio Bravo was made.
This is one of a trilogy of westerns that were very similar in plot. El Dorado and Rio Lobo are the other two. El Dorado is my favorite of the three because Robert Mitchum did such a good job playing the drunk sheriff.
Ward Bond also played Sergeant Major O'Rourke with a quiet dignity in "Fort Apache" and the scout "Buffalo Baker" in "Hondo".
I highly recommend "Little Big Man" (1970), a dark comedy-western starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and Chief Dan George. Hoffman plays Jack Crabb, a very old man who recounts his life out West and all his loves and losses.
Faye Dunaway was also Robert Redford's "volunteer" (as she described herself), whom Redford kidnapped after his office co-workers were massacred, in your very recent reaction to 3 Days of the Condor.
Really a "must watch" movie.
Great reaction. I love the scene near the end in which Walter Brennan does an impromptu imitation of John Wayne's character and Dean Martin displays very real surprise and delight. My two favorite John Wayne westerns are THE COWBOYS and THE BIG TRAIL.
Are you saying Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson are going to be in our movie?! Well we got to make sure they sing together at one point! Back when studios knew what they were doing. Ricky and Dean 2 of the most beautiful singing voices to grace Humans. We were lucky to have them.
One thing I love about Ricky Nelson is that he was naturally cool without even having to try.
A lot of westerns, especially Howard Hawks and John Ford westerns had singing included. All three of Ford's "cavalry trilogy" (Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande) had musical interludes. The western singing group "The Sons of the Pioneers" appeared in several movies. Ford was asked about this and noted that impromptu singing was common in the 1800's; even on trail drives, cowboys would sing soft songs to the cattle at night to "calm them down."
@@donwild50 Yes but they didn't have Dean & Ricky singing.🙂
@@porflepopnecker4376 Ricky was great when he Hosted on SNL in the 70s
Martin, always overshadowed by Sinatra, was and is a very underrated singer.
Rio Bravo was my dad’s favorite Western. It’s also one of my favorites. Thank you for reacting to this one. Reminds me of my dad who has passed away
In the bar scene with JW and DM, I always love it.. especially when Wayne hits that cowboy (not Joe) with the butt of his rifle. Such a good cast in this version. El Dorado 1966 was the remake with James Cann and Robert Mitchum.
Which do you think is better: Rio Bravo or El Dorado?
@@aklimar2208 Overall this one.
@@mikedignum1868 Interesting, in what way? I'm on the opposite side finding El Dorado to be the superior film that, dare I say, *corrects* the failings of Rio Bravo, but I'd really like to know why you think Rio Bravo is better.
Howard Hawks used this story structure, an isolated place, the arrival of a romantic interest, within a dangerous series of events, in a few of hid films, ONLY ANGELD HAVE EINGS (1939), TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944). RIO BRAVO (1959) and to some extent EL DORADO(1967) and RIO LOBO (1970). It was his favorite form of presenting character interactions in difficult situations. All films worth reacting to. The "girl's" name is Feathers.
the main baddie in this, joes brother, appears in two Clint westerns.... he's Marshall Stockburn in Pale Rider and Bloody Bill Anderson in The Outlaw Josey Wales .... both fantastic films
John Russell. He's the villain of sorts in McClintock, and starred in the series Lawman
Howard Hawks, who directed this movie really HATED High Noon. Paraphrasing, he said "Stupid movie. Sheriff is supposed to be a professional, good with a gun. He had taken the main bad guy down before. But he spends the whole movie running around like a headless chicken and ends up getting saved by his Quaker wife! It's ridiculous!"
My problem with High Noon -- so excellent in many ways -- is that the townsfolk had a pretty good point vwhen they reprimand Cain at one point, saying, why didn't you just leave. Almosdt looks more like he's hiding behind the town rather than protecting it.
Will Kane didn't put the Miller gang out of business before by himself. He had a good number of deputies backing him up. The one deputy he had in the movie backed out when he couldn't blackmail himself into being the new marshal. All he was trying to do with this "running around" was to find people who wanted to help by being deputized. Deputizing citizens was a pretty common occurrence in western movies and television shows.
High Noon has the edge for me, but Rio Bravo is such a great time! I love Angie Dickinson's character--at first, when she showed up, I rolled my eyes over such a young woman running after someone over twice her age, but she's such a great example of the Hawksian woman transported to the western. She's a lot like Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not.
You're seriously shocked that a younger woman would pursue an older man? It happens all the time, Anna Nicole Smith, Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn to name a few. In the late 19th century, when this story took place, younger women often married older established men to secure their future. They could not vote and in some states own property. Have you not read Pride and Prejudice? Marrying well was something most women of this time desired.
@@doc_adams8506 Of course I know this happens, but it's also sexism in Hollywood casting at its finest. As actors age, their love interests remain in their twenties--the IT girl of the week. And there's no evidence that Feathers was after security--marriage was never even mentioned. She clearly just had the hots for John Wayne, who was 24 years her senior--and who didn't have the bonus of ten thousand a year.
What much older man did Katharine Hepburn pursue?
Reupload?
Man, copyright sucks!
22:44 The song played by the small orchestra here is "The Deguello" a Moorish tune that the Spanish used to signify that no quarter would be given. Traditionally, it was the tune the Mexican Army under Santa Anna played during the siege of the Alamo. John Wayne was sort of using "Rio Bravo" as an advertisement for his film "THE ALAMO" which would be released the following year. "Rio Bravo" even features an Alamo Saloon if the tune was not enough to drive the point across.
John Wayne HATED "High Noon" ("The most un-american thing I have ever seen") and Hawks also didn't like it ("The whole time the sheriff is running around like a headless chicken, asking anybody for help. In the end it becomes clear, that he coulod handle all the work with a little help from his wife").
So they created "Rio Bravo" as a kind of antithesis to "High Noon"
Another western you should consider is the epic Once Upon a Time in the West.
It has a star-studded cast, most notably Henry Fonda as the villain Frank Miller.
Can you imagine Tom Hanks as as a sociopathic killer? Well, that’s what Fonda plays, and it’s one of his best performances ever.
Mark Harmon who plays Gibbs on NCIS his older sister Kristen was married to Ricky Nelson for several years she passed back in 2018. Ricky and Kristen's daughter Tracy was also an actress,niece to Mark Harmon.
Loved your reaction to Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson singing.....ALL the girls loved them....Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sing a lot in "Paint Your Wagon"
You're being extremely generous to call what Eastwood and Marvin did as singing.
You'll really enjoy Rooster Cogburn. 🎉🎉
Siendo una gran película ,RIO BRAVO , esta unos escalones por debajo de , HIGH NOON ,
La credibilidad del western es por encima EL ÍCONO DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS GARY COOPER ,
La prueba la tenemos en los Óscar concedidos al mejor,
De todo corazón, 🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
Rio Bravo, El Dorado and Rio Lobo are viewed as an unofficial John Wayne tri-logy. Other highly recommended westerns are Silverado and Quigly Down Under.
The only comment about her name was calling her "Feathers" but I think that was more as a description than her name. Later on (and not only in this John Wayne movie) comments were made about how John, who is clearly a mature man (late 30's or early 40's) is here and in other films paired with a romantic love interest who is significantly younger. Some critics note almost a "trope" of older men ending up with very young girls. It's clear in Bogart's movies ("Sabrina" for example and his films with Bacall...he was in his 50's when they made their first movie and she was barely out of her teens.) It's also mentioned in the James Bond movies, especially when Connery had aged and even more so in the Roger Moore Bond films. The critics note the "hero" not only wins his battles with physical force, but that he also acquires young women...and they speculate the movies made for a male audience weren't just playing off the "hero wins" image but also "Hero gets nubile girl."
Quentin Tarantino says that this is his favorite “hang out movie.”
A type of film where there’s just enough plot to move it along because the point is really to hang out with the characters.
Great re-upload! Please consider reacting to 'El Dorado', a remake, but just as good, or *Red River*, my favorite John Wayne Western, but if you like to see a different lead, then you can't go wrong with James Stewart in Winchester '73.
Great review again, Madison. John Wayne did sing a couple of times, but most of the time he was dubbed. However in movies like The three Godfathers, In old Oklahoma, The Quiet Man and some others he did his own singing. It was no Francis Albert ofcourse 😉, but he did sing in some of his movies.
I think the thing John Wayne hated about High Noon was the sheriff spent the whole movie begging for help. He didn’t think a real sheriff would do that.
Apart from disliking the image of a sheriff "begging" for help, John Wayne also was disgusted by the premise that led to the "begging." He hated High Noon's portrayal of average American citizens of the Old West as cowardly, gutless, and selfish people who would refuse to help the Marshall in his time of need. John Wayne loved America and was an eternal optimist in the goodness, kindness, morality, and heroism of this country and its People (similar to Ronald Reagan), and thus he refused to believe average Americans would behave so dishonorably -- especially concerning a "good guy" lawman/peace officer in need. John Wayne was a VERY CLOSE FRIEND of Gary Cooper but he disagreed with the premise of the movie High Noon because he saw it as leftist, Marxist sympathizer writers deliberately undermining America. You have to remember the context of the time. The 1950s were the early height of the Cold War, there was the "Red Scare" in Hollywood -- which, BTW, has later been PROVEN by FACT to have been a MERITORIOUS inquiry because old Soviet records disclosed that the Soviets had indeed placed Communist agents and sympathizers as script writers and actors in Hollywood (among other places, including infiltrating American academia, American media, and even the U.S. GOVERNMENT itself, especially the State Department !!!!!) So John Wayne, a staunch patriot and anti-Communist, wanted to do a movie that CELEBRATED America and the virtues of Americans as a specific rebuttal to High Noon.
I'll say this, when it comes leading ladies opposite John Wayne, Angie Dickinson knocked it out of the park in this one. Maureen O'Hara was probably the best in all his movies but I love Angie in this. I think Capucine as Angel in North to Alaska would be next on my list. I think he was best when his female love interest stood strong with and against him.
High Noon. Also See the HUAC witch hunt. The Searcers is a must see. My favourite American Westerns are those directed by Anthony Mann and mostly with Jimmy Stewart. They are Westerns which meet noir.
John Wayne hatted High Noon bc he thought it was a commie film. The depiiction of the townspeople turning their back on the town marshall irked him. So in Rio Bravo....the Marshall got help.
Not much in relation to High Noon, that I can tell……but El Dorado was Almost. Copy of this movie.
There was a point back when he first started doing movies where he played a character called Singing Sandy. But he didn't like the idea of a singing cowboy and quickly moved away from that.
One of my favorite John Wayne movies is (The Coyboys) hope you check it out
The whole notion of a sheriff betraying his oath of office and quitting is why the Duke disliked High Noon.
2 other great John Wayne movies are Rio Lobo and my favorite, El Dorado!!
Some really fine actors in this. Stumpy - Walter Brennan - did a lot of great work in the movies and on TV. Don't know if you noticed but Wheeler - Ward Bond - who did a lot of movie and TV work as well. He was the wagon master on the TV series Wagon Train, and he made a few movies with John Wayne, including playing the Catholic priest in The Quiet Man. As far as Wayne singing ..... I think trying to hang with 2 of the biggest vocal stars in their respective genres was a bit daunting. Dean Martin famous for being part of the Rat Pack with Sinatra and those guys was a very popular crooner type and Ricky Nelson being a teen hearthrob rock n roller. For more of The Duke try McClintock with Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, The Cowboys, The Shootist to name just a few. Oh nd speaking of the Rat Pack, they made a couple movies as well. frank, Dean, Sammy Davis Jr and more. They did the original Oceans Eleven, and they did a musical comedy called Robin and the Seven Hoods. If you enjoy musical comedies, Guys and Dolls is a great movie. Enjoy!!!
The reason I watch this movie is to hear Dean and Ricky sing, somewhere around the one hour, 45 minutes.
if you love westerns one very, very underrated movie you should react to is Duel at Diablo, James Garner, Denis Weave and Sidney Potier. In my opinion, it comes up just short of a classic.
Dean Martin showed some real acting chops in this....show vunerability as a defeated man, alcholic, who redeems himself. Ricky Nelson came from years of experience his parents radio and TVs itcom and had some acting chops that other did not, like Fabian and such. But once Angie Dickenson came on he screen I forgot all about them lol. This was filmed at the Od Tucson filming grounds....I visited that place when in the area, it's a rebuilt western tourist trap town with some amusement rides. Many films, mostly westerns, were filmed there from about 1939 on.... it is located a few miles from Tuscon AZ proper.
Hi Madison. I know you are a big Kevin Costner fan, so you should watch him in “The Highwaymen”. Not a spoiler but it’s based on the life of Frank Hamer the Texas Ranger who brought down Bonnie & Clyde. You will enjoy it!
"The Judge Roy Bean". Wow, I forgot about this one.
Dude is played by the popular singer Dean Martin.
Both Hawks and Wayne saw it as an attack on America, and American ideals. Wayne said in a Playboy interview that it was "the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life". I totally disagree , Americans 'can' be cowards . 'High Noon' was almost an 'art' movie compared to more standard westerns . However , must admit that I also liked 'Rio Bravo' . Also a little known fact that John Wayne accepted Gary Cooper's Oscar for him .
There's also "El Dorado " starring john Wayne, Robert mitchum and James Cann and "Rio Lobo " starring John Wayne and Jack Elam plus a couple stars I can't remember at the moment, you definitely need to see them
if in the mood for another western, The Sons Of Katie Elder. One of Dean Martin's early films Some Came Running with Frank Sinatra.
👍 You're one of the best with these reviews, when you say something it's worthwhile hearing and the rest of the time you just enjoy the movie along with us - and extra points for including oldies, I'm an oldie myself ;)
Imo, the best John Wayne Western is The Shootist
Ricky Nelson was a teen heartthrob in the 50’s co-starring in his parent’s tv show Ozzie and Harriet where his band was featured.
Rio Bravo is the best
I hope you watch El Dorado and
Rio Lobo.
Both remakes of Rio Bravo.
I liked El Dorado a little more because I love Caan...
@@louisdemoss6215 I enjoy Robert Mitchum
I love when the pour that concoction into him...Madison will freak
@@louisdemoss6215 that's so funny!
Arguably the best western ever made.
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Do people appreciate that the 1960s Star Trek series leaned very heavily on the traditions of the 50s-60s western genre? Compare the personalities and relationships among the main cast here and on the Enterprise.
Deep Space Nine is basically a western set on a space station. High Noon was remade in Outland in 1981 starring Sean Connery and set on a moon of Jupiter.
Being a big John Wayne fan, I was always at the movies on Saturdays with my friends to watch the latest John Wayne movie in the mid to late 60's & into the early 70's. My FAVORITE John Wayne movie was The Cowboys in 1972. It was the first time I had seen Bruce Dern. After seeing The Cowboy's, it was the LAST time I watched a movie with Bruce Dern. Madison, please pull your executive decision privilege to react to The Cowboys, as a special tribute to The Duke. Thank you.
If the Academy gave Walter Brennan a Best Supporting Actor for Come And Get It (?), what should they have given him for Stumpy? An old man trying to stay in a younger man's world? His struggle was as important as Dude's. And Stumpy found a way to fit in. So give him another Oscar and retire the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Or keep it but call it the Stumpy.
Cahiers Du Cinema began championing Hawks right from the start of the French New Wave in the early 1950s calling him the only genius auteur-director in Hollywoods studio system. They also noted that Hawks was born rich and got richer, giving him eff you money. meric took note of Hawks a decade later when film scholar Andrew Sarris wrote a long article about him, saying "if you don't like Hawks 's movies, then you don't like America.".
Madison ,You are the only person i will watch who covers movies..... because you're so good and dont miss anything .THANKS ❤
Another casual masterpiece from Howard Hawks. This is why Hawks has more films in the Library Of Congress's National Film Registry than any other director, 11 to John Ford's 10 and Hitchcock's 9.
Colorado is played by Rick Nelson. Ricky was a teen heart throb back in the 50's He grew up on his parents TV show. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was a sitcom based around the Nelson family. Ricky had a number of hit songs in the 50"s and a comeback hit called Garden Party in the 70's. He died in a plane crash in 1985 at 45
Wayne got help by being a decent civilized man who asked nothing of anyone, and he DID HIS JOB. Kane got no help because he asked for it.
The basic plot of a small group of likeable characters under siege began with The Thing 1951. Why no one thought of it before was a mystery to Hawks. Later, in 1971, Sam Peckinpaugh made Straw Dogs, a husband and wife under siege at their home in rural England. Dustin Hoffman starred in it, and it was very controversial.
Of course Stumpy gets the tights.
Hawks' problem.with HIGH NOON is professionalism. You take a job. You agree to do the job. Then do the job or quit. Yes, Hawks knew it was an allegory. But for an allegory to work, it should be based on actual human behavior that we recognize as realistic. Otherwise its truths are rhetorical; it sounds made up. A real-life example is Burt Reynolds. For 30 years he said he was the heir to the throne of Cary Grant. Hollywood got sick of him ASKING for respect and dumped him until Boogie Nights in 1997. Deliverance launched him and he was eternally grateful for that movie, to that movie, to the director, and to his costars. He wasn't jealous that Jon Voight effortlessly walked away with the movie because he had seen Midnight Cowboy and knew what Voight could do. And he was grateful to be his costar in an A movie that was serious and almost a Greek tragedy. For a year he promoted it, going on every talk show in the world and barnstorming across America to do local talk shows.
And Deliverance made 45 million the first year and another 20 million the second year. But it won no Oscars. And word got out, true or not, that it was because Burt posed for a COSMO centerfold that parodied Playboy. So he blamed himself.
But instead of making more serious horror movies like Deliverance and serious dramas, he did what Nic Cage did after Leaving Las Vegas: he made dumb action movies that only cheapened his reputation more. And when he died, people looked at Deliverance and Starting Over and Boogie Nights and said "that guy was pretty good at times."
So it was with HIGH NOON. Sheriff's that run around asking for help don't get any. Movies that go around asking you to believe in them usually meet quiet disbelief. Wayne walks into the Burdette saloon to arrest Joe and probably get killed. He does it because that's his job.
In Hawks original 1951 The Thing, the creature threatens and lays siege to an Arctic Research Station manned by middle-aged scientists and storm-stranded Air Force men, the crew of a cargo plane on its weekly run. Who fights The Thing? The stranded Airmen. Not the scientists. Why? The Airmen took an oath to protect the country with their lives. The scientists didn't sign up for a war with an alien.
And it's the same with other Hawks movies. Do your job or quit. Don't expect others to do your job for you or with you.
After they made this movie ol' Dean Martin always addressed Angie Dick in son as Feathers . It looks like Ward Bond came straight from the Wagon Train set in custume as Major Adams to do his few lines in this movie for his old friend John Wayne .
No one should gloss over the fact that Hawks had the 3rd and 4th most popular singers in the world in Rio Bravo (1st is Elvis and 2nd is Frank Sinatra)..He would have been lynched if he had not let them sing.
And what the hell is the Academy Award for Excellence in a Supporting Role for if it doesnt go to Stumpy?
John Wayne felt High Noon to be anti-American because no citizen would help Will Cane. He felt that Americans aren’t cowards. Indeed, it was citizens who shot up the Daltons, not lawmen. Most were Civil War vets and Indian fighters. No “bad gunmen” took over a western town, though its a western movie staple. Rio Bravo is about duty, like High Noon, but citizens help. And its a lot more fun. Duke must’ve like this plot. He refilmed it three times (El Dorado and Rio Lobo). It works.
Well now Miss Thames ( 6 months late to the party 🥳) I just watched your reaction to 3 GODFATHERS and scanned your channel and here I am. So thankfully John did not sing. Dean one of the best Crooners of the time for some reason not as iconic as Frank or Tony Bennett or Sammy Davis !? I kinda prefer. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis for laughs!! Great Channel Mad!! I'm becoming a fan! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
If interested, the trumpet song playing in the cantina is available on Spotify performed by Tony Camarro "Deguello, Rio Bravo"
Please watch McLintock with John Wayne and his favorite lead actress Maureen O'Hara. It is just hysterical to see the fire between the two of them. It is one of the best westerns made. You should also watch John Wayne in other westerns like "The Searchers", "Stagecoach", "3 Godfathers", "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon", "Rio Grande", :The Sons of Katie Elder", "True Grit" and the follow up "Rooster Cogburn", "Chisum", "The Undefeated", my favorite "The Cowboys" ( rare twist!), and his final film "The Shootist". You also should watch some of his wonderful non westerns like "The Quiet Man", "The Green Berets" (about Vietnam) and "The Flying Leathernecks".
Angie Dickinson, who played the gambling girl aka Feathers, was absolutely gorgeous. I always enjoyed this movie and its "other similar movies such as "El Dorado" and "Rio Lobo". You should check those out (if you have not already... I literally just discovered your channel. Good job by the way)
Besides John Williams, this film has other Star Wars connections. Roscoe Lee Browne (Mr. Nightlinger) used that great voice to narrate the 1977 album The Story of Star Wars, which was an abridged version of the events depicted in the film using dialogue and sound effects from the movie. And the lead villain, Bruce Dern (Asa Watts), starred in the 1972 sci-fi classic Silent Running. The three robots in that film were one of the many inspirations George Lucas used to create R2-D2.
Feathers talks Chance into the ground. As light-hearted as Rio Bravo is, it never turns a blind eye to the darkness all around it. I'm sure you noticed that the movie pulled no punches, so to speak, but it took note of evil when it very quickly and very violently got rid of it.
The action was very fast and dark and quickly over, like in life. And like most Hawks movies this is really a battle of the sexes hung.upon a hopefully but not required-to-be-interesting story.
And To Have And Have Not was a bit of a response to Casablanca. Hawks thought it was alcoholic Irish sentimentality run wild. He used Hemingways worst novel as an answer to Casablanca and also as an excuse to show Hemingway "I could take your worst book and make a great film of it."
You definitely need to put 2 more John Wayne movies on your list:
1972 The Cowboys (nobody has reacted to this yet)
1976 The Shootist (his last film).
Thumbs up for enjoying"The Quiet Man". Try Donovans Reef, The Hell Fighters, and Hatari.
Wayne doesn't sing because he isn't a part of the flawed members of his family (papa Chance, mama Stumpy, sons Dude and Colorado). And he is the patriarch.
Those that have to ask for respect rarely get it.
The girl is Feathers. The drunk is Dude. The old man is Stumpy. And that is that. We don't need to know anything more because their actions speak volumes.
Tarantino uses this same device in his movies when he can. And Rio Bravo is his favorite hang movie. Hawks made a lot of movies with likeable characters you just want to spend time with, regardless of the plot.
Supposedly Howard Hawkes & John Wayne thought that High Noon was an affront to American western heroes. Thus, they countered with the Rio Bravo western mythology.
I just remembered when hearing you about seing John Wayne in a non western film : you must see « Hatari ! », it takes place in Africa, good film too, director Howard Hawks, same as Rio Bravo.
Ward Bond (Pat Wheeler) starred in several famous John Wayne movies--Rio Bravo, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers.
When you mentioned why John Wayne didn't sing in this movie , well by his own admission , he couldn't sing . I saw a biography on him once , and they said that early in his career during the 1930's , before he was in "Stagecoach" , he was talked into being a singing cowboy like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry in a bunch of low budget B - Westerns , even though he tried to tell them he couldn't sing . Later as he became more famous , he didn't do that anymore .
Rio bravo starring John Wayne Dean martin Ricky Nelson who was also a popular Ricky Nelson who was also a popular contemporary singing artist Died young. In El Dorado John Wayne plays the same character dean martin's Also a popular singer in his day and a former partner of comedian singer and actor jerry Lewis character is played by Robert Mitchum Ricky Nelson's character is played by James Caan
Ricky Nelson is such a Gary Stu in this movie. His reps must've had final approval on the script, insisting that at no point would he ever be made to look foolish or like someone who still has anything to learn. He's a crack shot with perfect on-the-spot judgement, wisdom well beyond his years and everybody likes him. Of course, that pretty much sums up like 95% of John Wayne's characters too.
Wayne did play Sandy the Singing cowboy in some B Westerns - but his voice was dubbed in those films. So no, John Wayne wasn't much of a singer. Especially when you have Dean Martin the classic crooner and Ricky Nelson the pop star teen heartthrob. Walter Brennan who played Stumpy was a 3 time Academy Award winner. I think this is Martin's best film as an actor playing an alcoholic going through withdrawal. Ricky Nelson also was to me a surprise doing a good job of playing a laconic young gunslinger. The actor and actress who played Carlos and Consuelo were wonderful both adding color and comedy but both also showing stalwart hearts to help their friends. Feathers (Angie Dickinson) played to her strengths as an actress with her charisma and charm shining through. And Wayne, well he was in his prime being Wayne, the mans man. High Noon was a movie about isolation - one man standing alone without help - even at odds for most of the film with his wife. Rio Bravo is a story of community and helping one another - Dude saves Chance at the beginning - we find out Chance has been keeping an eye on Dude and keeping his things in hopes he will pull it together, Stumpy who lost his ranch is hired by Chance as a Deputy despite his physical limitations as Chance trusts him to have his back and to do right. Feathers comes to town and falls for Chance going so far as to risk her safety by sitting outside his room and later sitting at the bottom of the stairs and throwing a flower pot out the window. Colorado risks his life to save Chance outside the hotel, after Chance and Dude kill the hired killer who killed Pat Wheeler (Ward Bond). In the climax they all come together to fight Nathan Burdette and his gang. Chance is reluctant throughout to request or to push for any support but accepts it once they provide it. High Noon says in time of crisis all those people called friends will abandon you. Rio Bravo says in time of crisis all those friends and good people will step up and support you even if you don't ask. I think in the end any functioning society has to work like that modeled in Rio Bravo as the society in High Noon depicts a failed society. Both can be true and I think they are true for different societies at different times in different places. Germany of WW2 and America of WW2 were different societies with different answers.
Madison I’ve only just discovered you. The eager way you get captivated by these classic films is infectious and I think you are wonderful.Dean Martin Is often thought of as the Dino character he created the blasé stud relaxed insolent and decadent . Ratpacker supreme with his big Buddy Sinatra. He was Dude / Boracon in this and the director Howard Hawks arranged allegedly for the filming to coincide with Cabaret commitments Dino had in Las Vegas consequently a private plane would get him for day shoots of the film after night bookings in the Casinos making him look tired and edgy. Quentin Tarantino has often said when he is single he shows a potential girlfriend Rio Bravo and if she doesn’t like it then it’s bye bye! Dean Martin never got the credit he deserved for his acting. Walter Brennan was a three time Oscar winner. EL Dorado was a loose remake with Robert Mitchum as a drunken Sheriff Wayne his gunslinging friend and Arthur as the Stumpy like guy and James Caan as Mississippi instead of Colorado. The actor Ward Bond who was Wheeler the wagon train boss shot in the street was actually in about 26 or 27 films within John Wayne. I haven’t checked but wonder if you have seen Sam Peckinpahs master piece the Wild Bunch about ageing bank robbers running out of places to hide coming to their inevitable end. The old man who looks after their horses etc is Edmund O Brrjan who goes back a long way including White Heat with James Cagney and as the newspaper guy in The Man Who,Shot Liberty Vallance
Ask yourself if the basic truths of High Noon were rhetorical or realistic. Not "was it a good movie" but "is this how a Sheriff with a Quaker wife would act?" Why not arrest the men waiting for the train for loitering? Ask them while holding a sawed off shotgun on them?
High Noon is like 12 Angry Men. You enjoy it as long as you don't think about it.
If you love Stumpy, you'll really love him in the Western comedy Support Your Local Sheriff. Don't confuse it with Support Your Local Gunfighter which was a disappointing sequel, sort of lol. Please do a reaction to Sheriff. You won't be disappointed.
"Rio Bravo" was done by John Wayne three times with different titles. One was "Rio Lobo".
They had to shoot the dynamite because they did not have detonators.
For fun, try "Support your Local Sheriff"
Funny she'd just watched The Quiet Man. The man playing Pat Wheeler (The wagon train boss who gets killed) also plays Father Lonergan in The Quiet Man.
John Wayne made another movie similar to this called "El Dorado". You should also watch "Donavan's Reef", "The Quiet Man", and "True Grit" to get a full cross section of his work.
For westerns, some of the ones I reccomend are Open Range, Big Jake, once upon a time in the west, Chisum and the Terrance Hill My Name Is Nobody movies.
1970 " Rio Lobo" is a great western movie. Staring John Wayne.
Angie Dickinson had a pair of the more famous legs in Hollywood history. She insured them with Lloyds of London for over a million dollars when that was a bunch of money. Mary Hart, original host of ET with John Tesch, also insured her legs.