Rio Bravo (1959)

Rio Bravo rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8/10· 72K votes

Rotten Tomatoes96%

Metacritic93%

TMDb7.81/10· 1K votes

With 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8/10 on IMDb and 93/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Rio Bravo

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

Cast of Rio Bravo

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  John Wayne

  as Sheriff John T. Chance

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  Dean Martin

  as Dude

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  Ricky Nelson

  as Colorado Ryan

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  Angie Dickinson

  as Feathers

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  Walter Brennan

  as Stumpy

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  Ward Bond

  as Pat Wheeler

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  John Russell

  as Nathan Burdette

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  Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez

  as Carlos Robante

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  Estelita Rodriguez

  as Consuela Robante

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  Claude Akins

  as Joe Burdette

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  Malcolm Atterbury

  as Jake

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  Harry Carey, Jr.

  as Harold

Rio Bravo facts

Budget

$1.2M

Box office

$5.8M

Our take on Rio Bravo

Howard Hawks's 1959 western has a small-town sheriff and a ragtag band — a drunk, a cripple, a young gunslinger — hold a jail against a powerful rancher's men. Relaxed, warm and built on camaraderie rather than grandstanding, it's the laid-back classic that answered the genre's anxieties with friendship. If its easy charm and slow-building tension delighted you, seek out classic westerns about loyalty, grit and standing your ground together.