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2 DISC SPECIAL EDITION 28th MAY
FROM WARNER HOME VIDEO
“Arguably Hawks’ greatest film…Beautifully acted, wonderfully observed,
and scripted with enormous wit and generosity”
TIME OUT FILM GUIDE
“Faultless, freewheeling-and very funny.”
 EMPIRE
John Wayne would have turned 100 on 26th May and to celebrate one of cinema’s greatest legends Warner Home Video are releasing a two-disc special edition of the classic Western RIO BRAVO on 28th May 2007. This edition will feature a new digital transfer from restored picture and audio elements, an audio commentary by director John Carpenter, a documentary about Hawks and two new featurettes.
Director Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep) lifted the Western to new heights with Red River. He does it here again, capturing the legendary West with a stellar cast in peak form. Wayne is Sheriff John T. Chance, a small-town lawman enlisting the help of a ragtag team to hold a murderer in jail until the state marshal can arrive. On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing the murderous cohort from jail. On the other are Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard (Dean Martin), the other a crippled codger (Walter Brennan). |
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Also in their ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth (Ricky Nelson) and a woman with a past (Angie Dickinson) – and her eye on Chance.
JOHN WAYNE
The man who became the embodiment of the great American western hero was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. John Wayne first worked in the film business as a laborer on the Fox lot during summer vacations from U.S.C., which he attended on a football scholarship. He met and was befriended by John Ford, a young director who was beginning to make a name for himself. It was Ford who recommended Wayne to director Raoul Walsh for the male lead in the 1930 epic Western The Big Trail
For the next nine years, Wayne worked in a multitude of B-Westerns and serials. Wayne’s big break came in 1939, when Ford cast him as the Ringo Kid in the adventure Stagecoach. Wayne nearly stole the picture from his more seasoned co-stars, and his career as a box-office superstar began. During his 50 year film career, Wayne played the lead in 142 movies, an as yet unsurpassed record, and was nominated for three Academy Awards®, winning the Best Actor award in 1970 for his performance in True Grit. Wayne died of cancer in 1979 at the age of 72.
DVD Special Features:
Disc One
- Remastered feature film
- Commentary by John Carpenter and Richard Schickel (Renowned director Carpenter and film critic Schickel explore how this legendary Western was an extension of Hawks’ own personality and why it’s considered such an influential classic today)
- Wayne trailer gallery
Disc Two
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973 documentary)
- Two All New Featurettes:
- Commemoration: Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo
- Old Tucson: Where the Legends Walked
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