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Film · 1959 · Western
Rio Bravo
Directed by Howard Hawks
1959
★ 7.0 editorial score
Hawks made it as an argument against High Noon: instead of a marshal begging for help, four flawed men hold a jail and enjoy each other's company doing it.
“To watch "Rio Bravo" is to see a master craftsman at work. The film is seamless. There is not a shot that is wrong...In a film with suspenseful standoffs and looming peril, even a scene where Wayne and Martin walk down Main Street after nightfall is frightening. It is a Western with all of the artifice of the genre, but the characters and their connections take on a curious reality; within this closed system, their relationships have a psychological plausibility.”
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