Rio Bravo DVD

 My Favorite Western
The box set DVD has a bright picture but it isn't cleaned up of black spots that occasionally appear. It is also cut for 16 by 9 TVs. So the original 2:25 to 1 has been changed. It doesnt hurt the movie but I expected the original aspect. On my large screen TV the film quality was lacking in spots. There are 8 reproductions of lobby cards and the Dell Comic book reproduced. There are no outakes except in the trailer where Rick Nelson speaks to you and Dean Martin voice is off screen. This was a major dissapointment for me. The second disc has 2 Features of Howard Hawks and a travel destination of the OLD TUSON Arizona Movie set, where this movie and others were filmed. I enjoyed learning about Old Tuscon. No additional out takes or bloobers or even an outake of The Dean Martin Show with John Wayne. Although this is one of my favorite movies of all time and my Favorite Western the DVD extras were not well thought out, so they were left out. I waited 47 years for this special and whomever was responsible for the DVD extras failed. I liked the lobby cards and The Comic Reproduction was a surprise. Another error was no commentary from Angie Dickenson !!! Comments by horror man John Carpenter. What a mistake not having Angie. Angie I love you!
Submitted by VINCE O (TAMPA)
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 part of a symphony
Have always loved this film even when I got it mixed up with El Dorado. Often considered a trilogy with Dorado and finally Rio Lobo, it is actually a tetrology starting with Red River. Different angles on similar plot, parallel characters, repeated dialogue (some originating in To Have And Have Not--especially from the woman, i.e. from Bacall's character), Walter Brennan in Red and Bravo (out of Have/Have Not) and even insistence on a young actor--Montgomery Clift, Ricky Nelson, James Caan, young Mitchum and Estrada as a partial foil and apprentice to Wayne. More than remakes, they are "progressions". From Red with no law except their own to a law that needs a drunk to bend the law to a law that is drunk that needs a maimed gunslinger deputy, to finally a law that is lawless in the finale, Rio Lobo. An older Howard Hawks has almost come full circle--very odd. Is this the director's lake of faith in the State--a return to "grass roots Democracy"? I repeat, very odd. Or maybe I'm the one that is odd. Watch Red River, then Rio Bravo, then El Dorado and lastly Rio Lobo (that's a lot of water). Then go back to To Have And Have Not for the real genesis of so much of the this Hawks tetrology. Watch the John Ford cavalry trilogy, look for the same kind of looking at the same vase from different angles--I don't think that you will that that is the case there.
Submitted by John (Glendale, WI, USA)
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 Rio Bravo is GREAT
If you love John Wayne, Dean Martin or Ricky Nelson, you will love this movie. Good plot, good action, and a typical John Wayne-type movie. Judee
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 SUPREME CLASSIC
This is a must for the fan of westerns & John Wayne fans. Everything in it is a classic.
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 Classic movie by Howard Hawks and the Duke.
A Classic Western written and directed by Howard Hawks and starring the Duke at his zenith as an actor. Great supporting performances by Dean Martin and the always entertaining Walter Brennan. A morality play about self reliance and good vs. evil. Hawks is also at his zenith as a director opening the movie with plenty of action and not a word of dialogue for over five minutes. Hawks takes the successful formula of Red River and weaves together a cast of entertaining characters you can watch for hours. You will watch this movie more than once.
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