Rio Bravo (1959) Movie REACTION!

[@johnathanstruble1064]

The fact that Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson, absolutely great singers, legends yet years a part, had a moment to sing a duet, in a western was and is a stroke of genuine artistic direction.

[@glennwisniewski9536]

Rick Nelson was part of the Nelson family that had their own TV series (and before that, a radio series), called The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Rick, or Ricky Nelson as he was then known, literally grew up on the long-running show. The radio show ran 10 years with Ricky joining in 1949 for the last three, and then he started with the TV series which ran 14 seasons! And, in the process, he became a teen heartthrob and it lead to a recording career. Rick placed 54 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 (or equivalent) between 1957 and 1973. Rio Bravo couldn't resist pairing Rick with Dean for a song. Rick tragically died in a plane crash (he was a passenger) in 1985 on the way to a New Year's Eve concert where he was to perform.

[@joenugent8376]

Dean and Ricky singing together is the highlight of a truly classic movie!

[@cspringer333]

"Stumpy" is Walter Brennan. A very famous and beloved actor in his day. He was also in "Sgt. York" starring Gary Cooper. A true story about a conscientious objector in WWI who came from mountain people in rural Tennessee and became a WWI hero.

[@custardflan]

Only actor to ever win three supporting acting oscars, I believe.

[@JohnBullard]

Sitcom also, THE REAL McCOYS, with Richard Crenna (Rambo's commanding officer, Troutman).

[@zedwpd]

And Sgt York has a love story to it too. What a great movie!! I want to go see the York home in TN.

[@jefferywarburton2116]

@@JohnBullard Yes.

[@toygiants8748]

Always liked The Guns of Will Sonnet TV series.

[@bennychristensen4314]

The first guy who gets killed in the bar was played by Bing Russell, Kurt Russel's dad. This movie is also filled with some of the best western character actors of the time.

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

Yeah, Claude Akins (Joe Burdett) was in a number of movies and tv shows as a bad guy, including several appearances on Gunsmoke.

[@alanhope1190]

Carlos was a loyal friend to Chance when he needed friends. Love that character.

[@brandonflorida1092]

"The Girl," Angie Dickinson's character is nicknamed "Feathers." Rick Nelson, who played Colorado, was an extremely competent rock star. He had a lot of good songs. Oh, one more thing. A few years later the director, Howard Hawks virtually remade "Rio Bravo" with the extremely similar "El Dorado," which is also good.

[@donfite9269]

I think Eldorado is better. Robert Michum does a marvelous job as the drunk sheriff.

[@shawnj1966]

@@donfite9269 , Mitchum, was a better actor than, Dean Martin, but nobody wants to hear him sing, and for a singer, Dean was a pretty good actor.

[@thedeltonian3841]

@@shawnj1966 Mitchum had a Billboard top 100 hit with "The Ballad of Thunder Road", which he co-wrote.

[@beatmet2355]

@@donfite9269Arthur Hunnicut was good, too

[@dw7094]

Another interesting fact is that Johnny Cash wrote a song for Ricky Nelson, but it was not included in the movie. Nelson did record it. The song is titled "Restless Kid".

[@beatmet2355]

The actor playing Wheeler was Duke’s good friend, Ward Bond. He was also in The Quiet Man, as the priest with a passion for fishing. Lol He died shortly after Rio Bravo was made. This is one of a trilogy of westerns that were very similar in plot. El Dorado and Rio Lobo are the other two. El Dorado is my favorite of the three because Robert Mitchum did such a good job playing the drunk sheriff.

[@tonyjanney1654]

Ward Bond also played Sergeant Major O'Rourke with a quiet dignity in "Fort Apache" and the scout "Buffalo Baker" in "Hondo".

[@jackmessick2869]

Glad to see this back... Walter Brennan (Stumpy) played a lot of character roles in westerns, and had his own TV show in the late 1950s/early 1960s. He had another funny role in Red River (Howard Hawks film with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift) as the trail cook. Walter Brennan is one of only three male actors to win at least 3 Academy Awards, all before 1940. Almost forgot: he sang a top 20 hit in 1962, "Old Rivers."

[@nedworcester4395]

Two of my favorite Walter Brennon movies: he was Judge Roy Bean in “The Westerner” with Gary Cooper and I always liked his part; the alcoholic sidekick, Eddie; in “To have and Have Not” with Bogart and Bacall.

[@jeremyfagner6808]

Rio Bravo was my dad’s favorite Western. It’s also one of my favorites. Thank you for reacting to this one. Reminds me of my dad who has passed away

[@GarthKlein]

I think that the point is not that Chance is in denial about needing help but that he understands that a few dedicated professionals can do more than a lot of amateurs worried about their families. The theme of professionalism runs through most of Howard Hawk's movies. An excellent John Wayne non-western is "The Sands of Iwo Jima."

[@josefhorndl3469]

Love Rio Bravo, but my favourite movie with John Wayne is The Sons of Katie Elder. I don't know how often I watched The Sons of Katie Elder since I was a child about 55 years ago. My parents loved this movie and I love it too. Good chemistry between the Duke and Dean Martin again!

[@Nefarioso]

22:44 The song played by the small orchestra here is "The Deguello" a Moorish tune that the Spanish used to signify that no quarter would be given. Traditionally, it was the tune the Mexican Army under Santa Anna played during the siege of the Alamo. John Wayne was sort of using "Rio Bravo" as an advertisement for his film "THE ALAMO" which would be released the following year. "Rio Bravo" even features an Alamo Saloon if the tune was not enough to drive the point across.

[@davidwilkins5932]

You’ve no doubt heard it several times, but if you’re really going to delve into Westerns you MUST see ‘The Searchers’, also featuring Wayne. One of the foremost classics.

[@jackmessick2869]

She saw before starting the channel.

[@glennwisniewski9536]

@@jackmessick2869 OK, then she should do Red River.

[@jackmessick2869]

@@glennwisniewski9536 agreed.

[@singlechristiancowboy]

Dang right

[@CollideFan1]

Red River and the Searchers he should have won an Oscar for

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Great reaction. I love the scene near the end in which Walter Brennan does an impromptu imitation of John Wayne's character and Dean Martin displays very real surprise and delight. My two favorite John Wayne westerns are THE COWBOYS and THE BIG TRAIL.

[@jimmorrish6771]

the main baddie in this, joes brother, appears in two Clint westerns.... he's Marshall Stockburn in Pale Rider and Bloody Bill Anderson in The Outlaw Josey Wales .... both fantastic films

[@robruss62]

John Russell. He's the villain of sorts in McClintock, and starred in the series Lawman

[@davidcollver6155]

Mark Harmon who plays Gibbs on NCIS his older sister Kristen was married to Ricky Nelson for several years she passed back in 2018. Ricky and Kristen's daughter Tracy was also an actress,niece to Mark Harmon.

[@walterfletcher8276]

She was in Father Dowling with Tom Bosley.

[@Mr_Bob_A_Feet]

Quentin Tarantino says that this is his favorite “hang out movie.” A type of film where there’s just enough plot to move it along because the point is really to hang out with the characters.

[@Stogie2112]

I highly recommend "Little Big Man" (1970), a dark comedy-western starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and Chief Dan George. Hoffman plays Jack Crabb, a very old man who recounts his life out West and all his loves and losses.

[@NicholasRamos]

Faye Dunaway was also Robert Redford's "volunteer" (as she described herself), whom Redford kidnapped after his office co-workers were massacred, in your very recent reaction to 3 Days of the Condor.

[@dggydddy59]

Really a "must watch" movie.

[@robertjewell9727]

Howard Hawks used this story structure, an isolated place, the arrival of a romantic interest, within a dangerous series of events, in a few of hid films, ONLY ANGELD HAVE EINGS (1939), TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944). RIO BRAVO (1959) and to some extent EL DORADO(1967) and RIO LOBO (1970). It was his favorite form of presenting character interactions in difficult situations. All films worth reacting to. The "girl's" name is Feathers.

[@aztecgold8997]

Loved your reaction to Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson singing.....ALL the girls loved them....Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sing a lot in "Paint Your Wagon"

[@doc_adams8506]

You're being extremely generous to call what Eastwood and Marvin did as singing.

[@buckolsen6470]

@@doc_adams8506 That's the truth!

[@belvagurr403]

The reason I watch this movie is to hear Dean and Ricky sing, somewhere around the one hour, 45 minutes.

[@JJJBRICE]

After they made this movie ol' Dean Martin always addressed Angie Dick in son as Feathers . It looks like Ward Bond came straight from the Wagon Train set in custume as Major Adams to do his few lines in this movie for his old friend John Wayne .

[@alanpeterson4939]

I think the thing John Wayne hated about High Noon was the sheriff spent the whole movie begging for help. He didn’t think a real sheriff would do that.

[@wingedbuffalo4670]

Apart from disliking the image of a sheriff "begging" for help, John Wayne also was disgusted by the premise that led to the "begging." He hated High Noon's portrayal of average American citizens of the Old West as cowardly, gutless, and selfish people who would refuse to help the Marshall in his time of need. John Wayne loved America and was an eternal optimist in the goodness, kindness, morality, and heroism of this country and its People (similar to Ronald Reagan), and thus he refused to believe average Americans would behave so dishonorably -- especially concerning a "good guy" lawman/peace officer in need. John Wayne was a VERY CLOSE FRIEND of Gary Cooper but he disagreed with the premise of the movie High Noon because he saw it as leftist, Marxist sympathizer writers deliberately undermining America. You have to remember the context of the time. The 1950s were the early height of the Cold War, there was the "Red Scare" in Hollywood -- which, BTW, has later been PROVEN by FACT to have been a MERITORIOUS inquiry because old Soviet records disclosed that the Soviets had indeed placed Communist agents and sympathizers as script writers and actors in Hollywood (among other places, including infiltrating American academia, American media, and even the U.S. GOVERNMENT itself, especially the State Department !!!!!) So John Wayne, a staunch patriot and anti-Communist, wanted to do a movie that CELEBRATED America and the virtues of Americans as a specific rebuttal to High Noon.

[@melanie62954]

High Noon has the edge for me, but Rio Bravo is such a great time! I love Angie Dickinson's character--at first, when she showed up, I rolled my eyes over such a young woman running after someone over twice her age, but she's such a great example of the Hawksian woman transported to the western. She's a lot like Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not.

[@doc_adams8506]

You're seriously shocked that a younger woman would pursue an older man? It happens all the time, Anna Nicole Smith, Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn to name a few. In the late 19th century, when this story took place, younger women often married older established men to secure their future. They could not vote and in some states own property. Have you not read Pride and Prejudice? Marrying well was something most women of this time desired.

[@melanie62954]

@@doc_adams8506 Of course I know this happens, but it's also sexism in Hollywood casting at its finest. As actors age, their love interests remain in their twenties--the IT girl of the week. And there's no evidence that Feathers was after security--marriage was never even mentioned. She clearly just had the hots for John Wayne, who was 24 years her senior--and who didn't have the bonus of ten thousand a year. What much older man did Katharine Hepburn pursue?

[@frankwijdeven3106]

Great review again, Madison. John Wayne did sing a couple of times, but most of the time he was dubbed. However in movies like The three Godfathers, In old Oklahoma, The Quiet Man and some others he did his own singing. It was no Francis Albert ofcourse 😉, but he did sing in some of his movies.

[@donwild50]

Howard Hawks, who directed this movie really HATED High Noon. Paraphrasing, he said "Stupid movie. Sheriff is supposed to be a professional, good with a gun. He had taken the main bad guy down before. But he spends the whole movie running around like a headless chicken and ends up getting saved by his Quaker wife! It's ridiculous!"

[@frankbolger3969]

My problem with High Noon -- so excellent in many ways -- is that the townsfolk had a pretty good point vwhen they reprimand Cain at one point, saying, why didn't you just leave. Almosdt looks more like he's hiding behind the town rather than protecting it.

[@emilytrott]

Will Kane didn't put the Miller gang out of business before by himself. He had a good number of deputies backing him up. The one deputy he had in the movie backed out when he couldn't blackmail himself into being the new marshal. All he was trying to do with this "running around" was to find people who wanted to help by being deputized. Deputizing citizens was a pretty common occurrence in western movies and television shows.

[@maryhand9100]

Madison ,You are the only person i will watch who covers movies..... because you're so good and dont miss anything .THANKS ❤

[@lonnieellis3778]

I love the scene where they are singing together. The harmony between them is amazing. Stumpy is an awesome character. John Wayne is at his best. Thanks for covering older movies.

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

There was a point back when he first started doing movies where he played a character called Singing Sandy. But he didn't like the idea of a singing cowboy and quickly moved away from that.

[@gavinmead835]

I've seen this movie many times, love it. I find watching Madison watch and react to it very enjoyable.

[@leosarmiento4823]

First for this repost!!! Though not a western, I would like to suggest the war drama "In Harm's Way" (1965) starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, and Burgess Meredith.

[@buckolsen6470]

Yup, that's a good one.

[@jlmain5777]

Ricky Nelson was a teen heartthrob in the 50’s co-starring in his parent’s tv show Ozzie and Harriet where his band was featured.

[@Odinist]

👍 You're one of the best with these reviews, when you say something it's worthwhile hearing and the rest of the time you just enjoy the movie along with us - and extra points for including oldies, I'm an oldie myself ;)

[@alfredstimoli2590]

Rio Bravo, El Dorado and Rio Lobo are viewed as an unofficial John Wayne tri-logy. Other highly recommended westerns are Silverado and Quigly Down Under.

[@doc_adams8506]

The whole notion of a sheriff betraying his oath of office and quitting is why the Duke disliked High Noon.

[@mikedignum1868]

In the bar scene with JW and DM, I always love it.. especially when Wayne hits that cowboy (not Joe) with the butt of his rifle. Such a good cast in this version. El Dorado 1966 was the remake with James Cann and Robert Mitchum.

[@aklimar2208]

Which do you think is better: Rio Bravo or El Dorado?

[@mikedignum1868]

@@aklimar2208 Overall this one.

[@aklimar2208]

@@mikedignum1868 Interesting, in what way? I'm on the opposite side finding El Dorado to be the superior film that, dare I say, *corrects* the failings of Rio Bravo, but I'd really like to know why you think Rio Bravo is better.

[@TheTerryGene]

Thanks!

[@MadisonKThames]

Thank you so much!!💖

[@doc_adams8506]

If interested, the trumpet song playing in the cantina is available on Spotify performed by Tony Camarro "Deguello, Rio Bravo"

[@Alexandertg1955]

Colorado is played by Rick Nelson. Ricky was a teen heart throb back in the 50's He grew up on his parents TV show. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was a sitcom based around the Nelson family. Ricky had a number of hit songs in the 50"s and a comeback hit called Garden Party in the 70's. He died in a plane crash in 1985 at 45

[@buckolsen6470]

Only 19 when he did this movie.

[@cwdkidman2266]

Wayne got help by being a decent civilized man who asked nothing of anyone, and he DID HIS JOB. Kane got no help because he asked for it. The basic plot of a small group of likeable characters under siege began with The Thing 1951. Why no one thought of it before was a mystery to Hawks. Later, in 1971, Sam Peckinpaugh made Straw Dogs, a husband and wife under siege at their home in rural England. Dustin Hoffman starred in it, and it was very controversial.

[@Laceykat66]

Arguably the best western ever made.

[@thomastimlin1724]

Dean Martin showed some real acting chops in this....show vunerability as a defeated man, alcholic, who redeems himself. Ricky Nelson came from years of experience his parents radio and TVs itcom and had some acting chops that other did not, like Fabian and such. But once Angie Dickenson came on he screen I forgot all about them lol. This was filmed at the Od Tucson filming grounds....I visited that place when in the area, it's a rebuilt western tourist trap town with some amusement rides. Many films, mostly westerns, were filmed there from about 1939 on.... it is located a few miles from Tuscon AZ proper.

[@donwild50]

The only comment about her name was calling her "Feathers" but I think that was more as a description than her name. Later on (and not only in this John Wayne movie) comments were made about how John, who is clearly a mature man (late 30's or early 40's) is here and in other films paired with a romantic love interest who is significantly younger. Some critics note almost a "trope" of older men ending up with very young girls. It's clear in Bogart's movies ("Sabrina" for example and his films with Bacall...he was in his 50's when they made their first movie and she was barely out of her teens.) It's also mentioned in the James Bond movies, especially when Connery had aged and even more so in the Roger Moore Bond films. The critics note the "hero" not only wins his battles with physical force, but that he also acquires young women...and they speculate the movies made for a male audience weren't just playing off the "hero wins" image but also "Hero gets nubile girl."

[@doc_adams8506]

Ward Bond (Pat Wheeler) starred in several famous John Wayne movies--Rio Bravo, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers.

[@cwdkidman2266]

Another casual masterpiece from Howard Hawks. This is why Hawks has more films in the Library Of Congress's National Film Registry than any other director, 11 to John Ford's 10 and Hitchcock's 9.

[@jeffdetmer4681]

Some really fine actors in this. Stumpy - Walter Brennan - did a lot of great work in the movies and on TV. Don't know if you noticed but Wheeler - Ward Bond - who did a lot of movie and TV work as well. He was the wagon master on the TV series Wagon Train, and he made a few movies with John Wayne, including playing the Catholic priest in The Quiet Man. As far as Wayne singing ..... I think trying to hang with 2 of the biggest vocal stars in their respective genres was a bit daunting. Dean Martin famous for being part of the Rat Pack with Sinatra and those guys was a very popular crooner type and Ricky Nelson being a teen hearthrob rock n roller. For more of The Duke try McClintock with Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, The Cowboys, The Shootist to name just a few. Oh nd speaking of the Rat Pack, they made a couple movies as well. frank, Dean, Sammy Davis Jr and more. They did the original Oceans Eleven, and they did a musical comedy called Robin and the Seven Hoods. If you enjoy musical comedies, Guys and Dolls is a great movie. Enjoy!!!

[@reesebn38]

Are you saying Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson are going to be in our movie?! Well we got to make sure they sing together at one point! Back when studios knew what they were doing. Ricky and Dean 2 of the most beautiful singing voices to grace Humans. We were lucky to have them.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

One thing I love about Ricky Nelson is that he was naturally cool without even having to try.

[@donwild50]

A lot of westerns, especially Howard Hawks and John Ford westerns had singing included. All three of Ford's "cavalry trilogy" (Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande) had musical interludes. The western singing group "The Sons of the Pioneers" appeared in several movies. Ford was asked about this and noted that impromptu singing was common in the 1800's; even on trail drives, cowboys would sing soft songs to the cattle at night to "calm them down."

[@reesebn38]

@@donwild50 Yes but they didn't have Dean & Ricky singing.🙂

[@reesebn38]

@@porflepopnecker4376 Ricky was great when he Hosted on SNL in the 70s

[@frankbolger3969]

Martin, always overshadowed by Sinatra, was and is a very underrated singer.

[@robinbeerman4726]

Love this movie. Reminds me of my dad, he was 6'4" and was a st Louis city cop. Same attitude.

[@brettfromla4055]

Another western you should consider is the epic Once Upon a Time in the West. It has a star-studded cast, most notably Henry Fonda as the villain Frank Miller. Can you imagine Tom Hanks as as a sociopathic killer? Well, that’s what Fonda plays, and it’s one of his best performances ever.

[@buckolsen6470]

Yup, , Henry Fonda had played far too many "Ah, shucks" characters up to that point. His portrayal is chilling.

[@billcheek8043]

So now you really need to watch “Support Your Local Sheriff” a comedy closely resembling this story. It has Walter Brennan (Stumpy) in it. Also a bunch of great character actors. Do yourself the favor.

[@allengray5748]

YES! With James Garner aka James Rockford and Bruce Dern a definite must!! ☮️

[@donfite9269]

"The Judge Roy Bean". Wow, I forgot about this one.

[@jimearnest4342]

There's also "El Dorado " starring john Wayne, Robert mitchum and James Cann and "Rio Lobo " starring John Wayne and Jack Elam plus a couple stars I can't remember at the moment, you definitely need to see them

[@biglc034]

I'll say this, when it comes leading ladies opposite John Wayne, Angie Dickinson knocked it out of the park in this one. Maureen O'Hara was probably the best in all his movies but I love Angie in this. I think Capucine as Angel in North to Alaska would be next on my list. I think he was best when his female love interest stood strong with and against him.

[@buckolsen6470]

The John Wayne Woman was the inspiration for The Bond Woman.

[@georgecoventry8441]

This was a wonderful film. I first encountered it in comic book form (major films were often accompanied by a comic book release back then and all the kids read comics). Then I saw it on the big screen and several times later on TV. I think it's one of John Wayne's best.

[@tbobthehoss]

Wheeler was also in The Quiet Man, played the priest ... he was in many John Wayne films. His name was Ward Bond, an excellent actor and Wayne's friend.

[@buckolsen6470]

Come to think of it, Ward Bond was a reverend in The Searchers, as well as a Captain in the Texas Rangers

[@francoisevassy6614]

I’m glad you commented Rio Bravo, one of my two top westerns, the other being « Westward the Women » ! A bunch of great actors : I specially love Walter Brennan (Stumpie), he also plays with Gary Cooper’s other Oscar winning film : « Sergeant York » 👍 !! Love the music too. Dimitri Tiomkin composed the music for Rio Bravo AND High Noon. I particularly like the song « The Green Leaves of Summer » he wrote for « The Alamo » (1960) directed and played by John Wayne, role of Davy Crockett. Thanks from France 🇫🇷

[@Rackhir420]

You should react to The Big Country with Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Chuck Connors, and Charles Bickford.

[@benjaminroe311ify]

My parents had this on vhs when I was growing up.. this was a fun one to watch every now and then. Yes it's fun. Also high stakes.

[@thomasglynn2282]

The hotel owner is Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez who had a good career in movies, he has a grandson in the movies right now but I forget his name.

[@JJJBRICE]

After reading various comments from others I like to mention something that is new .Rio Bravo used many of then current TV stars to support John Wayne . Ward Bond from Wagon Train, Walter Brennan from The Real Mc Coys , John Russell from Lawman and of course Ricky Nelson from O & H .

[@giftedplanksify]

You'll really enjoy Rooster Cogburn. 🎉🎉

[@samuraiwarriorsunite]

Besides John Williams, this film has other Star Wars connections. Roscoe Lee Browne (Mr. Nightlinger) used that great voice to narrate the 1977 album The Story of Star Wars, which was an abridged version of the events depicted in the film using dialogue and sound effects from the movie. And the lead villain, Bruce Dern (Asa Watts), starred in the 1972 sci-fi classic Silent Running. The three robots in that film were one of the many inspirations George Lucas used to create R2-D2.

[@doc_adams8506]

Angie Dickinson had a pair of the more famous legs in Hollywood history. She insured them with Lloyds of London for over a million dollars when that was a bunch of money. Mary Hart, original host of ET with John Tesch, also insured her legs.

[@francoisevassy6614]

I just remembered when hearing you about seing John Wayne in a non western film : you must see « Hatari ! », it takes place in Africa, good film too, director Howard Hawks, same as Rio Bravo.

[@tomcody2203]

John Wayne HATED "High Noon" ("The most un-american thing I have ever seen") and Hawks also didn't like it ("The whole time the sheriff is running around like a headless chicken, asking anybody for help. In the end it becomes clear, that he coulod handle all the work with a little help from his wife"). So they created "Rio Bravo" as a kind of antithesis to "High Noon"

[@wolandbegemotazazello]

High Noon. Also See the HUAC witch hunt. The Searcers is a must see. My favourite American Westerns are those directed by Anthony Mann and mostly with Jimmy Stewart. They are Westerns which meet noir.

[@Ship-security]

I would say this movie, The Missing, and season three of Bonanza are my favorite western properties ever made.

[@ruggerobelloni4743]

You forgot that John and his Brother in law after the fight went home singing The wild colonial boy! Wayne sang Red Wing in the shower in another western.I just got a fantastic audience reaction at a church concert doing a Dean Martin impression on That's amore...

[@jakubfabisiak9810]

Angie Dickinson was in a pretty raunchy comedy called Big Bad Mama with Tom Skerrit (Alien, Top Gun), and William Shatner (Star Trek), and a small part by Noble Willingham (C.D. on Walker Texas Ranger with Chuck Norris).

[@briannichols4807]

When you mentioned why John Wayne didn't sing in this movie , well by his own admission , he couldn't sing . I saw a biography on him once , and they said that early in his career during the 1930's , before he was in "Stagecoach" , he was talked into being a singing cowboy like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry in a bunch of low budget B - Westerns , even though he tried to tell them he couldn't sing . Later as he became more famous , he didn't do that anymore .

[@HGWTPaladin]

Supposedly Howard Hawkes & John Wayne thought that High Noon was an affront to American western heroes. Thus, they countered with the Rio Bravo western mythology.

[@buckolsen6470]

33:00 The lesson today is "Don't anger a man who has 7 rifles on the wall in his place of business."

[@pugowner1347]

The cast of this movie is literally a laundry list of stars. The innkeeper Carlos (Pedro Gonzales Gonzales) and his wife Consuela (Estelita Gonzalez) were actually married in real life.

[@michaelK3148]

I believe the actress is Estelita Rodriguez who was married 4 times but never to Pedro. Pedro was married to his one and only wife for 62 years. Pedro recounted courting his wife to Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life in 1953. It is on KZbin. Hilarious, and led to John Wayne signing him to a movie contract.

[@seanbumstead1250]

I just finished watching your reaction again,thank you for watching my favorite western 😄

[@zardox78]

Ricky Nelson is such a Gary Stu in this movie. His reps must've had final approval on the script, insisting that at no point would he ever be made to look foolish or like someone who still has anything to learn. He's a crack shot with perfect on-the-spot judgement, wisdom well beyond his years and everybody likes him. Of course, that pretty much sums up like 95% of John Wayne's characters too.

[@edwardstowers7272]

John Wayne felt High Noon to be anti-American because no citizen would help Will Cane. He felt that Americans aren’t cowards. Indeed, it was citizens who shot up the Daltons, not lawmen. Most were Civil War vets and Indian fighters. No “bad gunmen” took over a western town, though its a western movie staple. Rio Bravo is about duty, like High Noon, but citizens help. And its a lot more fun. Duke must’ve like this plot. He refilmed it three times (El Dorado and Rio Lobo). It works.

[@clinthowe7629]

Dude is played by Dean Martin, he was a singer and a partner of Frank Sinatra. the old man Is Walter Brennan, he always played old sidekicks like that he was also the grandpa on the Real McCoy’s tv show.

[@johnnybmean74]

"Dude" was the One & Only Dean Martin. He was a Great Singer. He had one of the most laidback cool voices in the history of music. He was Elvis Presley's favorite singer, & he was Elvis' biggest influence when it came to singing ballads. He first became famous in 1946 as half of the legendary comedy duo Martin & Lewis. Within that duo, Dean played the suave handsome smooth-singin' straight man to Jerry Lewis' zany elastic-faced goofball (Lewis was a huge influence on Jim Carrey) comedic antics. Dean Martin was also part of the legendary Rat Pack (you really should look them up). He was a Star in Music, Movies & Television. You should check out the Legendary Dean Martin Comedy Roasts. One last thing, over the years Dean developed this image as the Cool Alcoholic Singer/Entertainer...Was he really a Drunk? No clue. I've heard people say he was, I've heard people say the image was a Total Put-On. My guess, it's probably somewhere In-Between.

[@donwild50]

John Wayne often took on a realtively new actor in his movies. Colorado was new to westerns...but he was hardly an unknown. That is Ricky Nelson, the younger son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, well known actors in their own right. He first appeared as their child in their television series...and later became a teenage heartthrob singer, extremely popular in the 1950's.

[@timcarr6401]

His popular in the early 1960s too.

[@dggydddy59]

Anybody else remember watching Tony Soprano watching the scene where Dean sings the song about My Pony, My Rifle And Me??

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

For westerns, some of the ones I reccomend are Open Range, Big Jake, once upon a time in the west, Chisum and the Terrance Hill My Name Is Nobody movies.

[@alanhope1190]

One of my favorite of Duke’s films.

[@gregsteele806]

Funny she'd just watched The Quiet Man. The man playing Pat Wheeler (The wagon train boss who gets killed) also plays Father Lonergan in The Quiet Man.

[@robertmaez6706]

Gonzalez-Gonzalez was a staple in many westerns of the time...

[@stephenalexander2553]

1970 " Rio Lobo" is a great western movie. Staring John Wayne.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

Been to Presidio. Pretty cool right on the Rio Grande. I have to say this is one of my favorite of Westerns. Of course the Spaghetti Westerns are totally different and yet I love this as much. I'm in the middle of Chapter Fifteen in Gone Outlaw. My first read of a Western. I defiantly like it lady. Keep 'em comin.!! As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

[@rf3899]

2 other great John Wayne movies are Rio Lobo and my favorite, El Dorado!!

[@NicholasRamos]

Being a big John Wayne fan, I was always at the movies on Saturdays with my friends to watch the latest John Wayne movie in the mid to late 60's & into the early 70's. My FAVORITE John Wayne movie was The Cowboys in 1972. It was the first time I had seen Bruce Dern. After seeing The Cowboy's, it was the LAST time I watched a movie with Bruce Dern. Madison, please pull your executive decision privilege to react to The Cowboys, as a special tribute to The Duke. Thank you.

[@louisdemoss6215]

I think Wayne's best acting was in "the shootist" when he was playing a gun fighter dying of cancer..while dying of cancer...Lauren Bacal & Ron Howard are great in it too...

[@clifmillwood]

The guy Joe kills at the beginning is Bing Russell, Kurt Russell's father.

[@iclaudius50ad]

Hi Madison. I know you are a big Kevin Costner fan, so you should watch him in “The Highwaymen”. Not a spoiler but it’s based on the life of Frank Hamer the Texas Ranger who brought down Bonnie & Clyde. You will enjoy it!

[@jamesdemarco7161]

John sings (if you can call it that) in his last movie, The Shootest.

[@frosty3693]

"Rio Bravo" was done by John Wayne three times with different titles. One was "Rio Lobo". They had to shoot the dynamite because they did not have detonators. For fun, try "Support your Local Sheriff"

[@StereoSpace]

I was a little shocked when my oldest daughter told me one day she liked Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. My obvious thought was, where did you them sing (these days)? She told me she'd stumbled on their music and really liked it. She then confessed she thought Dean Martin was really hot. LOL She said she had a crush on him. LOL

[@RobertWitten-j2y]

if you love westerns one very, very underrated movie you should react to is Duel at Diablo, James Garner, Denis Weave and Sidney Potier. In my opinion, it comes up just short of a classic.

[@michaelhughes838]

Interesting fact Wayne was the first singing cowboy (even though he couldn't sing)

[@unstrung65]

Both Hawks and Wayne saw it as an attack on America, and American ideals. Wayne said in a Playboy interview that it was "the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life". I totally disagree , Americans 'can' be cowards . 'High Noon' was almost an 'art' movie compared to more standard westerns . However , must admit that I also liked 'Rio Bravo' . Also a little known fact that John Wayne accepted Gary Cooper's Oscar for him .

[@marcelosastre3621]

Siendo una gran película ,RIO BRAVO , esta unos escalones por debajo de , HIGH NOON , La credibilidad del western es por encima EL ÍCONO DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS GARY COOPER , La prueba la tenemos en los Óscar concedidos al mejor, De todo corazón, 🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🛤🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲