BYU

Harold B. Lee Library

Rio Bravo

John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson

  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Date: Thursday, February 24, 2005
  • Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.


About the Event

First-rate western directed by Howard Hawks, whose signature depiction of tough men and tough women defined the professional code of honor. Wayne is a sheriff who, with a drunkard (Martin) and a “game-legged old man” (Brennan), tries to hold prisoner the brother of a powerful local rancher. This was Hawks’s response to and refutation of Stanley Kramer’s High Noon. Warner Bros. 1959. Technicolor. 141 mins. Original theatrical trailer.

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