John Wayne’s Rio Bravo, launched 67 years in the past this week, and his a lot youthful main girl co-star Angie Dickinson as soon as shared how “lovely” Duke was on set.
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Again in 1959, John Wayne made a patriotic comeback to Westerns in Rio Bravo. After John Ford’s The Searchers, Duke had made an effort to maneuver away from the style; nevertheless, the films he made afterwards weren’t as well-received.
Heading again to the Wild West with director Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo could be a response to 1952’s Excessive Midday, which was seen as an allegory of the Hollywood blacklisting of suspected communists within the movie enterprise.
Wayne believed the film to be “un-American” and Hawks disliked how the sheriff ran round asking for assist from anybody. Whereas of their upcoming image, the cowboy legend’s fearless and dutiful lawman would recruit solely essentially the most succesful folks.
Rio Bravo, which additionally starred Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson, featured Wayne’s Texan sheriff arresting a rancher for homicide, holding him in jail till the US Marshal arrived. All of the whereas he could be holding off the prisoner’s gang with a drunk, a younger gunfighter and a bodily disabled man.
The main girl, Feathers, was performed by Angie Dickinson, who was simply 27 years previous, reverse the 51-year-old Duke, a romantic age hole that drew adverse backlash from some critics. Now 94, she has beforehand seemed again with fondness on working alongside Wayne, who died in 1979.
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Angie with John Wayne in Rio Bravo (Picture: GETTY)
Angie stated the age hole by no means bothered her (Picture: GETTY)
Talking beforehand with Tradition Map Austin, Dickinson stated that the No 1 cause Rio Bravo holds up a long time later is due to Duke.
She stated: “It’s one of many roles the place he’s so completely different, in that he’s, how can we are saying, lovely? He’s not defending the fort, so to talk. I feel it’s a facet of him we didn’t see in numerous his films. He’s having fun with this younger girl. And whereas he’s enchanted along with her, he’s additionally lovely with Walter Brennan. And he’s charming and loving with Dean Martin, and with Ricky Nelson. So we see a heat and a cuteness about him that we don’t see in a lot of his different films.”
On taking part in a powerful feminine lead who confronted Wayne’s character, she stated: “Oh, it was within the writing. The writing just isn’t solely underrated however ignored on this film, as a result of it seems to be so pure. You neglect these phrases have been all written [by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett]. It was romantic. Billy Wilder known as Rio Bravo a suspense film, however the suspense was additionally there within the romance.”
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Dickinson, whose legs have been insured by Lloyds of London for publicity after her casting, was additionally requested in regards to the age hole between her and Wayne and if that meant it was onerous to specific a reputable display romance.
Dickinson added: “No, it by no means entered my thoughts. It simply didn’t happen to any of us. I feel it was a maturity that all of us had, that [was] what was most vital. The age didn’t matter as a result of we have been all mature folks. I used to be by no means an ingénue.”
Rio Bravo additionally marked Wayne and Ward Bond’s twenty second and ultimate film collectively, because the latter died of a coronary heart assault at 57 in 1960. Years later, footage from the movie, alongside others, could be used as flashbacks for Duke’s final film, 1976’s The Shootist.
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