Rio Bravo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Rio Bravo |
| Original title | Rio Bravo |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 141 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Howard Hawks |
| script |
Leigh Brackett Jules Furthman |
| production | Howard Hawks |
| music | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| camera | Russell Harlan |
| cut | Folmar Blangsted |
| occupation | |
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Rio Bravo (original title: Rio Bravo) is an American western by Howard Hawks from 1959 with John Wayne in the lead role. The film was shot from May 1, 1958 to July 23, 1958 and opened on March 18, 1959 with Warner Bros. Pictures distribution in US cinemas. Armada Productions was responsible for the production . The film was released in the Federal Republic of Germany on August 25, 1959 by Warner Bros. Pictures .
The film is one of the most successful westerns in film history. The Cahiers du cinéma list it at number 12 of the 100 best films of all time. In 2014 the film was included in the National Film Registry .
action
John T. Chance is the sheriff in the Texan city of Rio Bravo. His once reliable deputy, Dude, became a drunk through an unfortunate woman's story a few years ago and is begging for some money for alcohol in a bar. Dodger Joe Burdette mockingly tosses a silver dollar into a spittoon for Dude . Chance does not want to watch the humiliation of his former deputy and knocks over the spittoon, whereupon Dude knocks him down unconscious. Joe Burdette, for his part, hits Dude and kills an innocent bartender who wants to intervene. Chance quickly recovers from the blow and, with the help of Dude, locks Joe Burdette in prison for murder.
The conviction of Joe will have to wait until the Marshal arrives , which will take a few days. Meanwhile, Joe's brother, the wealthy rancher Nathan, enlists dozens of gunslingers and criminals to storm the prison. Chance and his old assistant, Stumpy, run into great distress. Dude is sworn in again as deputy sheriff on the condition that he stay away from alcohol. When Nathan Burdette visits his brother in prison, Chance suggests that Joe would be shot immediately if he tried to storm him, whereupon the rancher changes his strategy.
One evening, Chance's friend Pat Wheeler arrives in town on his supply train. Wheeler hears about the situation and tries to recruit men for Chance's support. The young gunslinger Colorado, who accompanies Wheeler's supply train as a security guard, politely declines recruitment because he does not want to interfere. As Chance feared, Wheeler incurs the anger of Burdette's men and is shot from behind. Dude can injure the murderer Wheelers and pursues him in a dodgy bar. After he is almost seduced to drink again, he discovers the hiding place of the murderer through his blood loss and shoots him. Meanwhile, Chance meets a mysterious young woman nicknamed Feathers who has arrived by carriage and is staying in the same hotel as him. Because of a profile that matches her description, he initially considers Feathers to be a wrongdoer , which is later cleared up. The two are slowly getting closer, even though the sheriff is reluctant to accept their advances in the dicey situation.
Dude hopes to have regained his old strength, but the next morning he begins to tremble because of the lack of alcohol. In this physical weakness, several of Burdette's men kidnap him. For his part, Chance is almost captured, but manages to get out of the situation with the help of Colorado's shooting skills and a distraction from Feathers. Colorado is then appointed deputy sheriff. After his liberation, Dude is ashamed of his weakness and wants to give up the office of deputy sheriff. A Mexican song that can be heard from the saloon with Burdette's men gives him strength again. The sheriff is planning to hide in prison with his three assistants until the marshal arrives, and wants to get the last rations from the hotel. But in the meantime Burdette's men have set a trap in the hotel and can bring Chance and Dude into their power. Chance leads three men from Burdette to prison, from which they now want to free Joe. Stumpy, who had once lost his land to the Burdettes and has a passionate hatred for them, suddenly opens fire and is able to shoot two of the men; Colorado wounds the third.
Sheriff Chance and Colorado take Joe with them to trade him for the dude who is still in captivity with Burdette. Dude and Joe are running towards each other from different directions and when they are close together, Dude suddenly attacks Joe and can defeat him. A shootout develops in which Stumpy, who was supposed to be left in prison because of his crippled leg, and the Mexican hotel owner Carlos rush to the sheriff's aid. Stumpy begins tossing a few sticks of dynamite on the granary where Burdette's men are entrenched. When it starts to burn, Burdette and his men surrender to the sheriff.
Quiet returns to the small town and Chance can finally spend more time with Feathers. She dresses in a sexy, very thin dress that she wants to wear in her new job as a barmaid in the hotel. Chance begins to get upset and doesn't want anyone but him to see her in this guise - that's exactly what Feathers had hoped for. Feathers throws her black tights out of the hotel window onto the street. The patrolling Stumpy discovers the tights and speculates that the sheriff may be getting married soon, but Dude mockingly warns him to mind his own business.
background
After his monumental film Land der Pharaonen (Land of the Pharaohs) had failed critics and audiences in 1955, veteran director Howard Hawks took a long break of three years - otherwise he had often released several films in one year. Hawks decided to make a western that should focus more on the characters and less on the direct plot. Although the western genre had its heyday in both the cinema and television series and was virtually omnipresent in the 1950s, Warner studio boss Jack L. Warner initially reacted skeptically to the idea of Hawks. It was only when John Wayne was hired, with whom Hawks had previously shot the western classic Red River (1948), that Jack Warner gave the go-ahead for the production of the film. Walter Brennan had also worked with Howard Hawks on Red River and four other films and received the character of Stumpy, who serves as a comic relief in many scenes .
Rio Bravo is considered to be Howard Hawks' alternative to the classic Twelve Noon (1952) by Fred Zinnemann , in which Gary Cooper as sheriff asks in vain for support during the first two thirds of the story, before he finally turns the gangsters in the final showdown with the help of his wife almost single-handedly to the track. John Wayne plays a cool professional who is aware of his strengths and weaknesses. He always carries a rifle with him “because there are men who are faster with a revolver than me” and he consistently refuses to help amateurs. Howard Hawks uses the professional skills of his staff just as consistently. In the middle of the film, songs are sung "because two of the main characters are singers". The scene “would be unthinkable with Zinnemann; it would probably seem dubious to him ”.
Rio Bravo was on 35 mm - Technicolor turned film and - with an aspect ratio of 1.85: - brought to theaters in 1959. 1 With a budget of around $ 3,000,000, the film grossed around 5,750,000 US dollars in North America alone. Howard Hawks' gage was around $ 100,000, John Wayne's about $ 750,000, and Dean Martin's $ 50,000.
The film's opening credits name Malcolm Atterbury and Harry Carey Jr. as the actors, although they are not actually seen in any scene. While Atterbury's scenes were being cut from the film, Carey had been fired by Howard Hawks as filming began. He allegedly addressed him as "Howard" and not - as expected by the director - as "Mr. Hawks ". Rio Bravo was the 22nd and final film that John Wayne and friend Ward Bond appeared together. Bond died on November 5, 1960 at the age of 57. Hawks took up the subject of a sheriff who has to fight back against a superior force with a few assistants, later in the films El Dorado (1966) and Rio Lobo (1970) again.
Locations
- Old Tucson Studios - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson , Arizona , USA
- Stage 26, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank , California , USA
- Stage 5, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created by Deutsche Mondial Film GmbH in Munich.
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| John T. Chance | John Wayne | Ernst Constantine |
| Dude | Dean Martin | Holger Hagen |
| Colorado Ryan | Ricky Nelson | Gig Malzacher |
| Feathers | Angie Dickinson | Ursula Traun |
| Stumpy | Walter Brennan | Hans Hessling |
| Pat Wheeler | Ward Bond | Klaus W. Krause |
| Nathan Burdette | John Russell | Wolf Ackva |
Reviews
Robin Wood wrote: "If I were asked to name a film that justifies the existence of Hollywood, it would probably be Rio Bravo to me ." His colleague Donald Willis was less impressed in his 1975 biography of Howard Hawks: Many thinks Rio Bravo is great, he himself thinks the film is very good. He only lives on the surface, but that is the most important level in films. Wayne, Brennan and Martin offer top performances, this is the strength of the film. However, Angie Dickinson doesn't play convincingly and just “slouches” around. The biggest weakness of the film is Ricky Nelson as "Colorado". Nelson is "just not an actor".
The film service writes: “Outstanding Western by Howard Hawks, who stages the simple but exciting story with professional composure and ironic nuances. The figure drawing is brilliant. "
Quentin Tarantino counts Rio Bravo as one of his favorite films and said that he would show the film to any new girlfriend of his and that if they didn't like the film, he would end the relationship. He also sees Rio Bravo as the father of all "hangout films", a term he coined to describe films in which friends spend time together and have fun.
Awards
Angie Dickinson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress , Ricky Nelson received a nomination for Best Young Actor . Director Howard Hawks was for the price of the Directors Guild of America nominated, while at the Laurel Awards the film as Best action drama and Dean Martin as Best Action Actor each occupied a second place.
In retrospect, the film received several important awards. The famous French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma listed Rio Bravo at number 12 of the 100 best films of all time. In the major critics poll of the British magazine Sight & Sound among the most important international film critics, Rio Bravo was voted 63rd for the best films of all time, making it the second highest-ranking western after John Ford's The Black Falcon . In 2014 the film was included in the National Film Registry .
literature
- Michael Althen: Film Genres - Westerns. Edited by Thomas Koebner . Reclam junior, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-018402-9 ; Pp. 230-232
- Peter Osteried: The great John Wayne book. MPW, Hille 2010, ISBN 978-3-931608-99-6 ; Pp. 312-321
- Mark Ricci / Boris and Steve Zwijewsky: "John Wayne and his films." Edited by Joe Hembus. Goldmann, Munich undated, pp. 197-199
See also
Web links
- Rio Bravo in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Rio Bravo in the online film database
- Rio Bravo atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Susan King: 25 titles added to National Film Registry , Los Angeles Times online, December 17, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014
- ^ Rio Bravo (1959) - Deep Focus Review - Movie Reviews, Critical Essays, and Film Analysis. In: Deep Focus Review. Retrieved January 12, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Joe Hembus : Western Lexicon , ISBN 3-446-12189-7
- ↑ I found some were faster than me with a short gun. (Dialogue quote "John T. Chance")
- ↑ Why don't you let me help you? - You're not good enough. (Dialogue between "Pat Wheeler" and "Sheriff Chance")
- ↑ Hawks quoted from: Joe Hembus: Western-Lexikon
- ^ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon
- ↑ "The Great John Wayne DVD Collection." Volume 1, p. 5
- ↑ "The Great John Wayne DVD Collection." Volume 1, p. 5
- ^ "Rio Bravo" in the synchronized files
- ↑ Robin Wood: Howard Hawks , quoted from: Mark Ricci, Joe Hembus (ed.): John Wayne and his films (OT: The Films of John Wayne ). Citadel Movie Books. Goldmann, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-442-10202-2
- ^ Donald C. Willis: The Films of Howard Hawks , 1975, ISBN 0-8108-0860-9
- ↑ Rio Bravo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Tony Paley: My favorite film: Rio Bravo . In: The Guardian . November 10, 2011, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed January 12, 2020]).
- ↑ Quentin Tarantino's favorite “hang-out movie” is a laidback John Wayne oater. Retrieved January 12, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ erwin.schotzger: What is a hangout movie? Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Votes for Rio Bravo (1958) | BFI. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Susan King: 25 titles added to National Film Registry , Los Angeles Times online, December 17, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014
