Rio Bravo (1959 film)

Rio Bravo (1959) is a western movie, directed by Howard Hawks. It stars John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson, with Angie Dickinson and Walter Brennan.

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1959 - Western movie - Howard Hawks - John Wayne - Dean Martin - Ricky Nelson - Angie Dickinson - Walter Brennan

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Sheriff John T. Chance (Wayne) has arrested a murderer, Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), brother of powerful rancher Nathan Burdette (John Russell). The rancher's men surround the town and try to break Burdette from jail. The only help Chance has is his deputies, Dude (Martin), an alcoholic, and Stumpy (Brennan), a cripple. Tensions are further strained by the presence of a young gunslinger, Colorado Ryan (Nelson), and the arrival of a mysterious woman, Feathers (Dickinson), on the last stagecoach; the plot building to one of the most explosive climaxes in film history.

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Claude Akins - John Russell - Jail - Alcoholic

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The script was written by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett and the musical score was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin. His score contained the haunting, Tijuana brass style tune De Guella, which was played several times to build up the tension. When the cast characters asked for the name of this tune, they were given the answer, that "it is the "Mexican Death Song", played on the orders of Santa Anna (Antonio López de Santa Anna) to the Texicans, who were holed up in The Alamo. The tune was used in the following year 1960, over the opening credits of Wayne's film, The Alamo.

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Jules Furthman - Leigh Brackett - Dimitri Tiomkin - Antonio López de Santa Anna - 1960 - The Alamo

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As the film starred a crooner, Martin and a teen idol, Nelson, Hawks included three songs in the soundtrack. During the jail scenes, Nelson sang a brief version of Get Along Home, Cindy and later he joined Martin in a duet, when the pair sang My Rifle, My Pony and Me. Finally Martin, backed by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra sang a specially composed song, Rio Bravo over the closing credits. Nelson later paid homage to both the film and his character Colorado, by including the specially written song Restless Kid on his 1959 LP, Ricky Sings Again.

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Crooner - Teen idol - Nelson Riddle - Orchestra - Colorado - 1959 - LP

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