alr

Rio Bravo

Screening on Film
Directed by Howard Hawks.
With John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson.
US, 1959, 35mm, color, 141 min.

After imprisoning a man for committing murder in a local saloon, a small-town sheriff (Wayne) enlists the help of the town drunk (Martin) and a “bum-legged old man” (Walter Brennan) to prevent the killer’s powerful brother from aiding his escape. Wayne’s unflappable sheriff was motivated largely by Hawks’s angry response to the “weak-willed” characters he perceived in Fred Zinneman’s High Noon. One of the rare comic westerns, Hawks’s work joyously ambles its way toward its climactic final shootout.

Part of film series

Read more

Serge Daney:
L’Homme cinéma

Other film series with this film

Read more

The Complete Howard Hawks

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

Read more

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow