History YMMV / RioBravo

** The film allso showed people that Creator/DeanMartin could do more than sing or be straight man to former comedy team partner Creator/JerryLewis. The scenes where recovering alcoholic Dude is going through withdrawal and has the "shakes" proved how good a dramatic actor he could be.

* EthnicScrappy: The hotel owner and his wife are more annoying than comical to some. Though Carlos at least provides aid to the heroes during the final confrontation with Burdette and his men.

* EthnicScrappy: The hotel owner and his wife are more annoying than comical to some.

* WhatMightHaveBeen: Internet Movie Database, amongst other sources, states that Hawks' first choice for Colorado was Music/ElvisPresley. Given the great job Hawks did with Ricky Nelson, one can only sigh....
* TheWoobie: Dude. He's left broken from an unhappy affair, and has turned to alcoholism, which has taken a toll on his confidence.

* WhatMightHaveBeen: IMDb, amongst other sources, states that Hawks' first choice for Colorado was Creator/ElvisPresley.

* EthnicScrappy: The hotel owner and his wife are annoying comical figures.

* CounterpartComparison:
** John T. Chance from ''Rio Bravo'' and Will Kane from ''Film/HighNoon''. Both find themselves in imminent danger from a gunfighter who wants revenge. Both need help taking their respective foes down. However, while Kane has the humility to admit he can't take on the Miller gang alone and spends the movie trying to get special deputies, Chance refuses to recruit those without experience to help him take on the Burdette gang, only to be assisted by those without experience anyway. Additionally, Kane is a PunchClockHero with an unglamorous job who fights the Miller gang because he has to, while Chance can actually afford to choose.
** Feathers and Amy Kane. Both are young love interests for the respective heroes. Their roles are reversed. Amy, an intense Quaker, refuses to wait around to find out if she's going to be "a wife or a widow" and chooses to leave Will, her husband, on the noon train. Feathers is a gambler who has had no previous romantic connection to Chance, and is urged by Chance to leave on the train but refuses.
** According to film scholar Peter Cochran, ''Film/HighNoon'' and ''Rio Bravo'' have two of the same types of characters who show up in the film: the town drunk and the old-timer, but the two are presented very differently.
*** In ''High Noon'', the drunk, Charlie (Creator/JackElam) is asleep in a jail cell for most of the movie, and just before the shootout, when the marshal releases him, he’s still fuzzy and appears to have no idea what’s going on. All the marshal can do is try to send him home. His ''Rio Bravo'' counterpart Dude (Dean Martin) is one of the sheriff's deputies, and is fast on the draw when the script requires him to be.
*** The old-timer in ''High Noon'', Martin Howe (Creator/LonChaneyJr) is the retired marshal of Hadleyville and would be useless in a gunfight because of his arthritic hand and busted knuckles. In ''Rio Bravo'', the old-timer Stumpy (Walter Brennan) is the sheriff's other deputy, and has a gammy foot so he's still able to shoot.

* AwesomeMusic: The score by Music/DimitriTiomkin.

* HeReallyCanAct:

*** In ''High Noon'', the drunk, Charlie (Jack Elam) is asleep in a jail cell for most of the movie, and just before the shootout, when the marshal releases him, he’s still fuzzy and appears to have no idea what’s going on. All the marshal can do is try to send him home. His ''Rio Bravo'' counterpart Dude (Dean Martin) is one of the sheriff's deputies, and is fast on the draw when the script requires him to be.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Dude and Colorado's little jam session is lovely, but it fits the Big Lipped Alligator Moment to a tee. It comes right out of nowhere, has no bearing on the plot, and apart from Dude's reprise while in the bath, is never brought up again.