John T. Chance (John Wayne) and Feathers (Angie Dickinson) stand in a hotel room of a saloon in 'Rio Bravo' (1959) Image via Warner Bros. No Western star commands the screen like John Wayne, with his ...
Rio Bravo was the highest-grossing Western of 1959, raking in over $10.5 million. That might have had to do with the stand-out cast — John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Angie Dickinson all ...
In 1959, Hollywood John Wayne returned to the Western genre with a patriotic flair in Rio Bravo. After his work on John Ford's The Searchers, Wayne had attempted to distance himself from Westerns, but ...