History Film / RioBravo

* RatedMForManly: One of the things Creator/QuentinTarantino likes the most about this movie is how it uses this trope.
** TestosteronePoisoning: '''Explicitly averted.''' Chance notes that he admires Colorado (and by implication the rest of his crew) precisely ''because'' he acts as if he's got nothing to "prove". (Chance himself averts it too, of course--with Creator/JohnWayne, it's fairly inevitable.)

* VitriolicBestBuds: Chance and Stumpy constantly bicker, rib, and shit-talk eachother.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Sheriff John T. Chance
** TheLancer: Dude
** TheSmartGuy: Colorado Ryan ("It's nice to see a smart kid for a change.")
** TheBigGuy: Stumpy
** TheChick: Feathers

* PoisonousFriend: Downplayed. Nathan Burdette is obviously not a good guy, but his brother Joe is much worse, and it is implied that Nathan's worst crimes are meant to clean up his brother's mess.

** She cranks it UpToEleven [[spoiler: in the final sequence, in StockingFiller fashion.]] Again, for Chance to feast his eyes upon.

* CharacterTics: Colorado has a habit of rubbing his nose with his index finger. Creator/HowardHawks told Music/RickyNelson to copy this tic from Creator/MontgomeryClift in ''Film/RioBravo''.

John T. Chance works as the sheriff of a small Texas town, but he's not as fast as he used to be with a six shooter (he prefers the trademark John Wayne Winchester '92 instead) -- and to add to his problems, the brother of the local rancher who pretty much runs the town sits in his jail. The rancher sends plenty of hired guns to get his brother out of jail, and the only people Chance can count on for help include his old, crippled deputy, Stumpy and a washed-up drunk called [[Creator/DeanMartin Dude]] (or Borrachón, Spanish for ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin drunkard]]", by the Mexicans). Along the way, Chance also receives help from a youngster named Colorado Ryan -- but will his help be enough to help the other three men deal with the hired guns until the Marshal arrives to handle the rancher's brother?

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Downplayed. After Feathers provides a distraction for Chance and Colorado to kill several Mooks, she is distraught enough about this to get drunk. It's quickly forgotten after the next couple scenes, though.

* RealityEnsues: Plenty of folks want to help Chance, but he knows that few of them have the skill to survive a fight with Burdette's hired killers, so he declines.

** Feathers' line to Chance - "I'm hard to get. All you have to do is ask me" - is from ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot''.

* CharacterTics: Colorado has a habit of rubbing his nose with his index finger. Creator/HowardHawks told Ricky Nelson to copy this tic from Creator/MontgomeryClift in ''Film/RioBravo''.

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In 1952, Fred Zinneman directed ''Film/HighNoon'', an excellent {{Western}} that snagged a number of Oscars -- but numerous awards didn't keep Western legends Creator/JohnWayne and Creator/HowardHawks from thinking the idea of a sheriff running around town and begging people to help him face a couple of outlaws looked awfully unprofessional. (As Hawks explained to the French magazine ''Cahiers du Cinéma'', he didn't like the idea, especially since ''High Noon's'' sheriff eventually proved a little luck -- and some help from his bride -- made him perfectly capable of doing his job alone.) So in 1959, the duo made ''Rio Bravo''.

* SelfPlagiarism: Feathers' line to Chance - "I'm hard to get. All you have to do is ask me" - is from ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot''.

In 1952, Fred Zinneman directed ''Film/HighNoon'', an excellent {{Western}} that snagged a number of Oscars -- but numerous awards didn't keep Western legends Creator/JohnWayne and Creator/HowardHawks from thinking the idea of a sheriff running around town and begging people to help him face a couple of outlaws looked awfully [[strike:un-American]] unprofessional. (As Hawks explained to the French magazine ''Cahiers du Cinéma'', he didn't like the idea, especially since ''High Noon's'' sheriff eventually proved a little luck -- and some help from his bride -- made him perfectly capable of doing his job alone.) So in 1959, the duo made ''Rio Bravo''.

Two later films that Hawks and Wayne made together ''Film/ElDorado'' and ''Film/RioLobo'' are considered to be loose remakes, or at least SpiritualSuccessors, to ''Rio Bravo''.

Two later films that Hawks and Wayne made together ''Film/ElDorado'' and ''Film/RioLobo'' are considered to be loose remakes, or at least SpiritualSuccessor|s, to ''Rio Bravo''.

Two later films that Hawks and Wayne made together ''Film/ElDorado'' and ''Film/RioLobo'' are considered to be loose remakes, or at least SpiritualSuccessor's, to ''Rio Bravo''.

* MauveShirt: Chance's friend Pat Wheeler, who is a strong supporter of him, but ultimately doesn't take part in guarding the jail [[spoiler: due to being killed, making him the only character to die besides the man Burdette murdered and several Burdette {{Mook}}'s]].

* DoubleStandardsAbuseFemaleOnMale: Carlos sports a black eye from his wife, who mistakenly thought he was with another woman and it's PlayedForLaughs.

* YoungGun: Colorado Ryan. A slight subversion in that Chance says about him: "It's nice to see a smart kid for a change." and Stumpy agrees. "Yeah, he's not like the usual kid with a gun."

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Chance and Feathers, played by the 6'4" John Wayne and 5'5" Angie Dickinson, respectively. The sets were famously all built on a 7/8 scale to make the actors look larger than life. Next to Wayne, Dickinson looks like ''she'' was built on a 7/8 scale.

* {{Expy}}: Pat Wheeler arrives in town at the head of a ''Series/WagonTrain''. He's essentially playing a variation on wagon master Major Adams. For good reason, as Wagon Train was then the No. 2 show on television. Bond is awesome as Wheeler, so no one's complaining.

* {{Expy}}: Pat Wheeler arrives in town at the head of a ''Series/WagonTrain''. He's essentially playing a variation on wagon master Major Adams.

* SpicyLatina: Carlos's wife.