First Time Watching *RIO BRAVO* (1959) Hawks did it again! | WILD WILD WESTERNS 

that 'vase' is called a spittoon, and that's something used to spit in, including your old tobacco chews, so it would have spit and used, nasty, slobbery tobacco in it. that means that in order to get the money, the person has to reach in there and put their hand in the slobber and nasty tobacco.

The vase is a spittoon... A place to spit instead of spitting on the floor.

"Rio Bravo", "El Dorado" and "Rio Lobo" are three John Wayne movies which tell basically the same story. I love all three of them.

Please! The Searchers is a must. It’s one of those “Your favorite film makers favorite films”.

The vase is a spittoon Oon where tobacco chewers spit there chaw. So it's gnarly as heck.

Wow, just got introduced to your channel and I'm impressed with the fact that you're doing something different and not reacting to the same movies that everyone else is reacting to. You've got a new subscriber and good luck with your channel

This my favorite Dean Martin performance. We can all appreciate the cool guy singing songs with a drink in his hand, but the vulnerability he shows here is special.

The vase they throw the coins in the the sputoon which the guys would spit out their used chew tobacco in.

Rio Bravo is one of my favorites movies. SO bloody good. And Dean Martin was so underrated as an actor.

“After seeing the film, Gary Cooper said it was "so phony, nobody believes in it." Ironically, Cooper had been a visitor to the set since he was filming The Hanging Tree (1959) nearby. This film is considered to be John Wayne and Howard Hawks' reply to Cooper's own film High Noon (1952) because neither Wayne nor Hawks thought a real lawman would want or need to ask for help in handling a problem like Cooper's character did in that film.”

The man who is shot at the beginning of the film by Claude Akins is played by Bing Russell, Kurt Russell’s father. Bing was also in “The Magnificent Seven” as one of the two salesmen who pay for the drunk’s burial. Kurt Russell played Wyatt Earp in “Tombstone.”

What a small world. Tucson is also my hometown. I remember visiting Old Tucson as a kid. Of course that was probably before you were born...lol. As to the song. When you have two famous singers like Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in a film you have to let them sing at least once.

Ricky Nelson was a successful recording artist in his own right. I grew up watching him on Ozzie and Harriet on Nick at Night, then he died pretty young. His twin sons had a band called Nelson.

Rick Nelson was a great singer in the 50s and 60s, too.

I love this film. Thank you for reacting to it. Your reactions are so good.

As a kid, I remember watching Ricky Nelson on the Ozzie and Harriet TV show. He was singer and a teenage heartthrob. Him being in this movie is like seeing Bob Dylan in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.

Another great John Wayne western (among many) - The Cowboys (1972).

I grew up watching John Wayne with my grandpa, and also one of the few good memories of my stepdad. I love seeing you react to them. Can't wait to see more. My favorite John Wayne movies are True Grit and McClintock.

You might also want to see Dean Martin in Airport (1970). He is part of an all-star cast that includes Burt Lancaster, Van Heflin, and Helen Hayes (who won a Supporting Actress Oscar). Dean's role was not as complex, but it was still a serious part. Airport was basically the start of the popular disaster films and it was a huge hit at the time.

You know I remember every Saturday afternoon my uncle would be watching westerns. He passed on, rip but now watching this and Highnoon. I have a great appreciation for westerns. Thanks.

Nice shout out to Old Tucson Studios. So many great westerns were filmed there!

Ok, Mia. You gotta see…”Support You Local Sheriff,” 1969. It’s a turn on the “lone Sheriff” story… Oh, Mia the “ Vase” is a Spittoon, a place where the customers spit their tobacco juice in it. Disgusting. In the book, by Dean Martins son Ricci Martin “That’s Amore,” explains a time when his fans would visit his house. He an Jeanne would entertain, Dean would go upstairs to hide from his guests. Once Jerry Lewis went up to see what was up? With Dean? Dean felt very, insecure. Out of place because his guests were Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians and high class people who just wanted to see him. And Love him. Jerry asked him to see the fans, but he also realized that Dean needed his “alone time.” Dean explained to Jerry, “ I just feel outta place near those people” Jerry didn’t ask anymore. So, Dean just loved his family, alone time and his Westerners on TV. So, anytime one of his friends would ask to be in a western, he was there! The Spittoon was a way to Humiliate a person, “kick him when he was down.” I grew up in my teen years in Gallup, NM mean teens would mess with poor drunks in the street, all the time. Awful deeds that they would do to victimize them. Difficult stuff, sorry about that Mia.

Mia...this Tucson native was present at age nine when Rio Bravo was filmed. There are neat things that an awe struck nine year old saw and did, and the actors I met at age nine. FYI, I was hatched in 1950 at TMC.

Not sure if you addressed this elsewhere but Rio Bravo was made by Hawks and Wayne as a response against High Noon.

I am very glad to find someone who reacts to movies from the mid 1900s. Most people don't seem to know movies existed before 2005. If I can throw some film suggestions in your direction, here are two: Rooster Cogburn and the African Queen.

If you're on John Wayne tangent. I'd recommend The Searchers, El Dorado, The Undefeated, The Alamo and Big Jake.

Carlos was played by GONZALES-GONZALES who was also a guess on the classic Groucho Maxx game show THIS IS YOUR LIFE he was just hysterical.

Colorado is Ricky Nelson...he was a star in his families sitcom Ozzie & Harriet during the late 50’s and early 60’s. He was also a singing heart throb. Great Movie! The thing I love about Wayne was the vulnerability he brought to his roles.

You're right about this whole movie being a shot at High Noon.

Howard Hawks did another screwball you would love Ball of Fire 1941. It has a lot of what you say you love. Written by Billy Wilder, great female lead, alot of the character actors youve seen in other movies youve seen on this channel

My three favorite John Wayne Westerns are _Stagecoach_ (1939), _True Grit_ (1969), and _The Shootist_ (1976).

My Man Godfrey is one of the most perfectly balanced movies ever made. Star power, comic performances, social comment, compassion, social contrast, star chemistry, and timelessness. Best of all, William Powell. 😍

Really enjoyed your reaction. Your insight and introspection was very great. I love to see someone fall in love with these older movies.

The "Cut Throat song was what the Mexican Army played for days before the Alamo siege. Good job Mia, love your reactions!

I just love your enthusiasm and commentary☺️🙏🏾Have a blessed day❤️🤗

i was in Tucson AZ in Jan 2020 and we went and saw Old Tucson, now a tourist attraction, with some of those buildings restored, redone to look like the old movie set. You can see the same mountains in the background there on a lot of old films. Nearby a few miles away is a an old SPanish Mission, a big white building, the 2nd Lone Ranger movie filmed some of the scenes there as well as using Old Tucson movie set. I stood right where Clayton Moore, the Lone Ranger did... sent chills through me because when I was a little boy I saw the reruns every Saturday and after school on TV. We're going back there Jan 2022. Gonna look for Tonto lol

Amazing film very classic Rio Bravo produced and directed by Howard Hawks starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan and music score by Dimitri Tiomkin. Thanks Mia Tiffany great reaction excellent☺☺

OMG! I love you like these old westerns! I grew up on these, thank you for appreciating these movies!

"Sons of Katie Elder" is another great one staring John Wayne and Dean Martin.

OMGGGGG YES! THANK YOU

I love your appreciation for old Westerns. Dean Martin, [[ Dino Crocetti ]] also had a daughter who was married to Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys.

“The last movie in which John Wayne wore the hat he had worn since Stagecoach (1939).”

Wow can't believe I stumbled upon someone reacting to my 2nd favorite western. Awesome job, too.

One of my favorite John Wayne films. Outside of The Quiet Man, which is a St. Patrick's Day staple for me, this is the one I've revisited the most.

DARN good movie-RIO BRAVO.I have this film on dvd,haven't watched it in years.But enjoyed the nostaigia walk,you have good breakdowns of films,I agreed with everything you touched upon.I like old movies and I love westerns!!! YYEE-HAH!!! KEEP'EM COMING,PILGRIM!!!

Walter Brennan was in about a zillion movies, many of them westerns. He had at least one major leading role, playing Judge Roy Bean in "The Westerner", from 1940. I first saw him when I was very young, on a tv broadcast of the western parody, "Support Your Local Sheriff", with James Garner. He often acted along with John Wayne, as did Ward Bond, who plays Pat Wheeler here, and who had a tiny role as a bus driver in "It Happened One Night" ("Maybe they do and maybe they don't"). Brenner has a major role in another Hawks' film, "To Have and Have Not", the first movie pairing Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Dean Martin was very under-rated, in part, possibly because of the image he himself cultivated, but he was a singer, an actor, and apparently, a gentleman too. My father loved him because of another wester comedy, "Texas Across the River", with Martin and Joey Bishop (playing an American Indian....), and handsome French actor Alain Delon playing a Spaniard way too concerned with honor. The movie birthed a by-word among my siblings and me, the only order ever given, ad nauseum, by a military leader, played with total commitment by Peter Graves: "A-roar-HAR!". The vase is a spittoon. Exactly what it sounds like it is.

Nathan Burdette was played by John Russell. Russell was starring in the TV series "Lawman" at the time when this movie was made. In "Lawman", Russell played Marshall Dan Troop...a good guy and so he was playing someone on the other side of the law in this film.

Dean Martin this was probably his best role. He did an amazing job.

Dean Martin was a great actor, and this was one of his best roles... he also had a series of movies where he played a James Bond type of character in the Matt Helm movies. Dean and Wayne also reunited after Rio Bravo to do The Sons of Katie Elder and Wayne appeared on Deans T.V. show

“Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Lloyd Bridges, Jack Lemmon, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, James Garner, Rod Taylor, Stuart Whitman and Michael Landon were considered for Colorado Ryan.”

I just watched Rio Bravo today and I LOVE IT! It was fun, had great dialogue, great action, and I never felt bored with it.

Mia, you are gonna go over the moon for Butch and Sundance. So glad that you are gonna react to that one next. Keep up the great job with these classics!

Been rewatching this one a lot lately with my uncle being diagnosed with throat cancer. Have a connection with this movie from him calling me Fude all the time.

I watched Rio Bravo once and missed the possible reference about wives and kids with the High Noon connection. so well spotted.

_My Rifle, My Pony and Me_ is my Dad's favourite song of all-time. He wants it played at his funeral.

Angie Dickerson is a wonderful actress. She had a tv series in the 70's called, " Police Woman". Loved watching it. Her legs were famous & insured for one million dollars.

Carlos and the "I am responsible" part was hilarious. Whenever I watch this movie I wait for that part 🤣

This movie has really, really grown on me. Its a great movie.

I found you just because i was searching for pics or video of marylin Monroe hair. Watching these is like traveling back in time. I never knew i needed to see these movies. The western series is my fav so far. I love action movies. And these guys were all about action. My second fav is the musicals. Keep going this is so fun, new and exciting.

"A man gets shot that's wearing a gun, there's room for reasonable doubt. Man gets shot that ain't wearing one, what would you call it ?" Favorite all time line.

Hey Mia - Another great western that took place (historically) in your back yard of southern Arizona is "Gunfight at the OK Corral," (1957) starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. It was also shot at Old Tucson, but the real-life incident on which the film was based took place in Tombstone, AZ - just around the corner from you !!~

Walter Brennan was a true National Treasure. You should watch him play Judge Roy Bean in the Westerner with Gary Cooper, The Pastor in Sergeant York or Ike Clanton in My Darling Clementine to the sidekick in To Have and Have Not with Bogart, The Far Country with Jimmy Stewart or Red River with John Wayne. Villain or sidekick, he was always a joy to watch. Because he lost his teeth early on, he could play older or goofy just by removing his dentures. He is hilarious in the Princess and the Pirate with Bob Hope and looks exactly like Dopey from Snow White only older and more insane. One of the saddest days of my life occurred when I was telling someone about a movie that I had never seen before with Walter. I was going on about how great he was in the movie and the guy says, "Who is Walter Brennan?". I truly felt so sorry for him. Thank you for keeping these great performers alive for a new generation.

Great Western, my favorite....learned that song at 17.....me and my dad used to do it. :)

I just love Stumpy, he was my favorite character in this movie.

I loved that you picked up on Dude's story. As far as I'm concerned the movies is more about Dude's story arc as opposed to John Wayne's part. It's more of a Dean Martin movie then a John Wayne movie. John Wayne is basically playing John Wayne. You can also see the influence of Leah Brackett's script. She has done a number of scripts for Hawks and they all have strong female characters. Side note Leah Brackett wrote the first draft for The Empire Strikes Back. It went through a lot of rewrites but the main story beats are in the final movie. She died before the film was completed. She has a writing credit for the movie. She was also a very prolific science fiction author. So Dean Martin's performance, Angie Dickinson's strong character as Feathers and the fact that Carlos is not a stereo typical Mexican and the strong script makes, for me, one of the best Westerns of all time. For a more nuanced Wayne performance see The Shootist with Lauren Bacall, Jimmy Stewart and Ron Howard. Also as one other commentator said the Searchers is one of John Wayne's most complex and, in many ways, a very unlikable character. And I'm done.

The War wagon, Big Jake, North to Alaska, the Comancheros, she wore a yellow ribbon, Angel and the Bad man just a few more John Wayne classics to add to your list

John Wayne said that Dean Martin was one of the most professional actors he ever worked with. He was always on time, always knew his lines and had already worked out how he should deliver his lines.

the vase is a spittoon, cowboys used to use them to spit their chewing tobacco instead of the floor. So those spittoons are full of spit.

Actor Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez was the grandfather of actor Clifton Collins, who appeared in HBO’s “Westworld” among other films and TV series.

great seeing someone enjoy these old western classics for what they are.

Angie Dickenson told a funny story about Rick Nelson on the set. He had a birthday while filming. So John Wayne and Dean Martin put a huge pile or horse manure in the middle of the street. They both went to get Rick Nelson , they picked him up, carried him to the manure, and threw him in it, then sang Happy Birthday to him...lol

"Red River", Hawks' first western.

Rio Bravo finds director Howard Hawks and his stellar ensemble cast working at peak performance and the end result is a towering classic of the western genre, RIO BRAVO (1959) 98/100% Certified Approved ☑ Sheriff John T. ️Chance: You want that gun, pick it up. I wish you would.

The scene of the bleeding guy upstairs being noticed by his dripping blood was first used, as far as i know, in the opera by Puccini, La Fanciulla Del West, which had the Old West as setting. And for more confluences of opera and westerns, you can see the Sergio Leone westerns, especially For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West.

OMG I love this movie so much! One of my all time favorites

One of my all time favourite westerns!

"The Vase!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hello, I live in Carson City, Nevada. They filmed the shootist here. The opening scene panned out over my uncles ranch.

Walter Brennan was starring in the TV show THE REAL MCCOYS at the time. When Howard Hawks started shooting Brennan's first scene he stopped it and said to Brennan, "I don't want you doing that garbage you do on television," whereupon Brennan came up with the "Stumpy voice."

Love this movie love the channel im subscribed

Feels good seeing someone react to classic westerns like this. S genre that I feel like has faded with time. Tombstone was awesome, but there hasn't been a lot since then, at least not many that haven't flown under the radar. McClintock, the blonde movies, (clint Eastwood trilogy), Shane, magnificent seven, Bonanza, gunsmoke... So much great classics and more!

The theme music is the Deguello as is explained in a later scene. That is a Mexican Army bugel call meaning, "Take No Prisoners, kill everyone without mercy."

Ward Bond and John Wayne played football together at USC and were life long drinking buddies.

Walter Brennan is really fun in _Meet John Doe_ (1941). Directed by Frank Capra it stars Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Certainly one you should watch.

The vase is a spot-on. Something used for spitting out used chaw or just spitting, period. It's a way of them trying to amuse themselves watching the town drunk fish out his drink money from tobacco goop.

"The Big Country" (1958) starring Gregory Peck, Charleton Heston, Jean Simmons, and Burl Ives is a MUST-SEE WESTERN!

Rio Bravo was a reunion for Hawks, Wayne, Walter Brennen, and musical director Dimitri Tiomkin who all worked together on Red River. The music for the song Dean sings is the main theme for Red River score. Walter Brennen was a three time best supporting actor Oscar winner. Walter costarred with Cary Cooper in four movies in the early forties: Meet John Doe, Seargent York, The Westerner( his last Oscar win) and the Pride of the Yankees.

A little trivia about Ricky Nelson... Elvis was in the army and Ricky was the new King of Rock & Roll... Also Ricky was already a T.V. veteran when this movie came out because he was a regular with his brother on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, their parents where the stars of the show.

This is my dad's favorite movie.

There’s a reactior I watch named Ashleigh Burton and she has a list of “future ex husbands” who could get it. Do you have a group of actors that do that for you?

“James Cagney, John Cassavetes, Edmond O'Brien, Rod Steiger, Richard Widmark, John Ireland, Tony Curtis, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, William Holden, Van Johnson, Burt Lancaster, Ray Milland, Spencer Tracy and Robert Mitchum were considered for Dude.”

My wife is extremely picky on movies, shes not a fan of westerns usually but she liked this one... I knew she was a keeper ; D

I just discovered your channel yesterday. Your analysis is as good as the hosts on TCM. You had me binging on your reaction movies till' 4 in the morning! Good thing I didn't have to go to work! There's thousands of movies out there to be reviewed. Yet the one I would like to see you review is *_Shane starring Alan Ladd,_* if you haven't done so already. It's one of my top 10 westerns of all time.

One of my favorite movies

Hope I'm the first to point out that the vase in Rio Bravo was a spittoon, another way to humiliate an alcoholic Dean Martin. My father was an alcoholic and when my mother first saw this movie with me, she walked out of the room in tears. She was very protective of my dad until his death in1971. She also hated the police for rolling drunks and spent the night in a d.c. jail several times for yelling at judges when she knew the cops had abused my dad. And Dean Martin slugs Wayne for getting between him and the price of a bottle of booze. And did you notice how EVERYONE gave Wayne a hard time? Hawks once said that a leader/hero doesn't have to do anything but lead. And when he leads, his buddies better follow or they're gone, which his why Wayne gave him 2 chances then cut him loose and Dude had to ask to come back. Colorado had to save his life to get on Wayne's team. And when Wayne kissed Stumpy on the head, I know it was a joke, but I dare you to name another mainstream film where the star kissed another guy as a joke. Rio Bravo was remade by John carpenter as ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 in the early 70's. Finally, Hawks is a sort of secret cult director whose films made tons of money, but those of us in the cult know that even during the McCarthy, Hawks never let up on his comedic assault on middle class values. Hawks/Cary Grant fanatic.

You could make a game of it and take a shot every time Mia Tiffany says "redemption" -- but then you might end up like Dude, in need of redemption.

The vase is a brass spittoon. Tobacco chewers spit into it rather than swallow their tobacco juice. Dude had sunk so low that they would toss a coin into the spittoon and he, being so desperate for a drink, would reach in and get the coin so that he could buy a drink. They were humiliating him and degrading him. Chance, at the beginning of the film, kicked the spittoon to prevent Dude humiliating himself, but he was also disgusted that his friend had sunk so low. Dude, so desperate for his drink, lashed out at Chance by hitting him with the log.

Needed to play more of Walter, the man was hilarious.

“Because the film starred a crooner, Dean Martin, and a teen idol, Ricky Nelson, Howard Hawks included three songs in the soundtrack. Before the big showdown, in the jail house, Martin sings "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me" (which contained new lyrics to a Dimitri Tiomkin tune that appeared in Red River (1948)) accompanied by Nelson, after which Nelson sings a brief version of "Get Along Home, Cindy", accompanied by Martin and Walter Brennan. Over the closing credits, Martin, backed by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, sings a specially composed song, "Rio Bravo" (written by Tiomkin with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. Nelson later paid homage to both the film and his character, Colorado, by including the song "Restless Kid" on his 1959 LP, Ricky Sings Again.”

Hi Mia.This is one of my favorite movies,and the first western I ever saw.Since my dad loved John Wayne,I used to rent John Wayne westerns every night,along with either a horror movie or a science-fiction since those are my favorite kinds of movies,then when I’d finally seen all the John Wayne westerns(a great deal of which I can’t really remember),I would go on to other classic westerns