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50th Anniversary of Rio Bravo

by | Jan 28, 2009 | Art, Guns and Culture

 Why Rio Bravo beats High Noon.
Fifty years ago this month, Rio Bravo premiered as director Howard Hawks’s answer to director Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon. Not buying into the theme of 1952’s High Noon, and despising its “unpatriotic” ending, Hawks reportedly set out to make the anti-High Noon, starring John Wayne. I don’t mind High Noon’s theme or ending. The film deserves its classic status, but Rio Bravo sim


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