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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 42427
Released: May 22, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In the dusty town of Rio Bravo, Sheriff Chance arrests Joe Burdette for a brutal murder and must fight off ruthless gunmen to keep him in custody until the state marshal arrives.
Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 05/22/07
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
Description of Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition):
When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: John Ford's The Searchers, Howard Hawks's Red River, and Hawks's Rio Bravo. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River is a sweeping cattle-drive drama ("Take 'em to Missouri! Yeeee-hah!"), Rio Bravo is on a much more modest scale. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T. Chance (Wayne), his sobering-up alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black cofee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally, singin' a song. Hawks--who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of "grace under pressure"--said he made Rio Bravo as a rebuke to High Noon, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional--he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. This most entertaining of movies also achieved some notoriety in the '90s when Quentin Tarantino (director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Jackie Brown) revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. Oh, and if the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade Rio Bravo two more times--as El Dorado in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as Rio Lobo in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. --Jim Emerson
Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition) Reviews:
Great in Blu-Ray 
2009-10-26 - This BluRay edition of Rio Bravo gives you so much more realism. The great individual characters are appreciated much more because the depth of their performance is seen more clearly (facial expressions, etc.). This is a great fun Howard Hawks - John Wayne western with a spectacular cast of supporting players, with the possible exception of Ricky Nelson, who actually does an OK job. Once you know that his part ('Colorado') was considered for Elvis Presley (Elvis had joined the army and was stationed in Germany by the time filming began) and that Montgomery Clift turned down the same role; you're left wondering, "What if...". Color, picture, and sound are excellent in this edition.
Great movie. good but not great Blu-ray
2009-10-19 - Rio Bravo: I give the actual movie four and a half stars. John Wayne is at his best and yes, Dean Martin can act. Walter Brennan is a hoot and Angie Dickinson? Grrroowrrr! The extras give a great deal of insight into the making of this classic western. As with The Searchers, there's a lot more going on beneath the surface than there appears. Many, for instance, don't realize Rio Bravo is a stern rebuttal to another classic western, High Noon.
I give the video quality three stars. The video transfer on Rio Bravo is not as clean and crisp as it is on The Searchers Blu-ray or even The Cowboys. But it's decent enough even if you won't be using it to show off your system.
Worth the buy. If you already own the DVD, you can rent the Blu-ray and watch the special features. If you don't own the DVD, go ahead and buy it. As I write this, the price is only $13.99, so what are you waiting for?
My favorite western of all time! 
2009-09-24 - In '59 when this movie first came out, I was the fastest draw on my street at the age of seven in El Paso, Tx.
I was the proud owner of a Mattel double holster, Fanner 50 gun set (and, it shot "real" plastic bullets!). My brother was old enough to drive, and so one summer night we went to see Rio Bravo at The Bordertown Drive-in Theatre. Even the front of the screen that faced Montana street, had cowboys on horses looking up at jets flying over head (due to Biggs Air Force Base). And, what a great time to be living there, Marty Robbins had just put us on the map with the release of "El Paso". We, at least in my mind, were the Cowboy Capital of the world...... dag nabbit!!!(it's in the movie).
Beautifully filmed, great cast, fabulous music by the king of movie soundtracks, Dimitri Tiomkin... what more can you ask?
I purchased this movie for an old friend who one night made the statement that, this is her favorite western of all time, and she can still remember seeing this at the drive-in! Maybe they were parked next to us!). Go figure.
Buy this movie if you've never seen it, and experience the magic of the old west through one of the best of the western classics of the 1950's.
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5-Star Movie!
2009-08-22 - Great actors/acting!Even a bit of great singing as a bonus.Of course it is a classic by now, but I just saw it for the first time. I absolutely LOVED IT!I'll be watching this again and again. Forgot for the moment that all the actors are gone.This movie stands the tests of time. I can't say enough good things about it, but also I'm sure the other positive reviews have covered everything.
Excellent service
2009-06-21 - Fast delivery, product was in great condition. What a pleasant seller to deal with.
