History YMMV / RioBravo

** 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.

** 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, Chance refuses to recruit those without experience to help him take on the Burdette gang, only to be assisted by those without experience anyway.

** 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, Chance is too proud to admit the same thing.

* CounterpartComparison: 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 (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.
** 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 Musci/DimitriTiomkin.
** Creator/HowardHawks realised that he had Music/DeanMartin and MusicCreator/RickyNelson in his film, so he put a musical number in. Martin sings "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" (which [[RecycledSoundtrack samples Tiomkin's own score from]] ''Film/RedRiver'', while Nelson leads a singalong of "Come Along Home, Cindy".

** Creator/HowardHawks realised that he had Music/DeanMartin and MusicCreator/RickyNelson in his film, so he put a musical number in. Martin sings "My Rifle, My Pony and Me", while Nelson leads a singalong of "Come Along Home, Cindy".

* TheWoobie: Dude.

* HilariousInHindsight: Nathan Burdette has a band play music that was used to intimidate the defenders at the Alamo. A year after this film, Creator/JohnWayne directed and starred in ''Film/TheAlamo'' as Davy Crockett.

** The old-timer in ''High Noon'', Martin Howe (Lon Chaney Jr.) 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.

* AdaptationDisplacement: There was originally a book by Barbara Hawks [=McCampbell=], Howard Hawks' daughter.

* CounterpartComparison: 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.

* HeReallyCanAct: Despite appearing to call for nothing more than Creator/JohnWayne's typical performance, the film lets him show more range than usual, as Chance has quite a few vulnerable moments where it's clear how worried he really is about making it through the standoff. He also gets really flustered in his scenes with Feathers.

* AdaptationDisplacement: There was originally a book by B. H. [=McCampbell=].

* CouterpartComparison: 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.

** Creator/HowardHawks realised that he had Creator/DeanMartin and MusicCreator/RickyNelson in his film, so he put a musical number in. Martin sings "My Rifle, My Pony and Me", while Nelson leads a singalong of "Come Along Home, Cindy".

** Creator/HowardHawks realised that he had Creator/DeanMartin and Creator/RickyNelson in his film, so he put a musical number in. Martin sings "My Rifle, My Pony and Me", while Nelson leads a singalong of "Come Along Home, Cindy".

* MoralEventHorizon: If you didn't think Joe Burdette was a Jerkass for tossing a coin in a spittoon for Dude or forcing a kiss on a woman, you will when he murders a man for absolutely no reason other than he tried to break up his fight with Dude.

* MoralEventHorizon: If you didn't think Joe Burdette was a JerkAss for tossing a coin in a spittoon for Dude or forcing a kiss on a woman, you will when he murders a man for absolutely no reason other than he tried to break up his fight with Dude.

* MoralEventHorizon: If you didn't think Joe Burdette was a JerkAss for tossing a coin in a spittoon for Dude or forcing a kiss on a woman, you will when he murders a man for absolutely no reason other than he tried to break up his fight with Dude.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny
** Chance: "I'm heading down to the hotel." Stumpy: "Well if'n you don't comeback, me and Dude'll have us a good cry."
** John Wayne calling Walter Brennan a treasure and kissing him on the head.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Rio Bravo'' was a huge success in Italy, laying the groundwork for the following decade's UsefulNotes/SpaghettiWestern boom.
* HeReallyCanAct: Despite appearing to call for nothing more than John Wayne's typical performance, the film lets him show more range than usual, as Chance has quite a few vulnerable moments where it's clear how worried he really is about making it through the standoff. He also gets really flustered in his scenes with Feathers.
** ''Rio Bravo'' showed people that DeanMartin could do more than sing or be straight man to former comedy team partner JerryLewis. The scenes where recovering alcoholic Dude is going through withdrawal and has the "shakes" proved how good a dramatic actor he could be.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: {{Website/IMDb}} claims that Creator/HowardHawks first choice for Colorado was Music/ElvisPresley, but "Colonel" Parker's salary demands were too high.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: {{Website/IMDb}} reports that Creator/HowardHawks first choice for Colorado was Music/ElvisPresley, but "Colonel" Parker's salary demands were too high. (Can't seem to find confirmation anywhere else, though, thus the placement here.)

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Rio Bravo'' was a huge success in Italy, laying the groundwork for the following decade's UsefulNotes/SpaghettiWesterns.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The InternetMovieDatabase reports that Creator/HowardHawks first choice for Colorado was Music/ElvisPresley, but "Colonel" Parker's salary demands were too high. (Can't seem to find confirmation anywhere else, though, thus the placement here.)

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The InternetMovieDatabase reports that Creator/HowardHawks first choice for Colorado was Creator/ElvisPresley, but "Colonel" Parker's salary demands were too high. (Can't seem to find confirmation anywhere else, though, thus the placement here.)

* HeReallyCanAct: Despite appearing to call for nothing more than John Wayne's typical performance, the film lets him show more range than usual, as Chance has quite a few vulnerable moments where it's clear how worried he really is about making it through the standoff.

* HeReallyCanAct: Despite appearing to call for nothing for than John Wayne's typical performance, the film lets him show more range than usual, as Chance has quite a few vulnerable moments where it's clear how worried he really is about making it through the standoff.

* HeReallyCanAct: Despite appearing to call for nothing for than John Wayne's typical performance, the film lets him show more range than usual, as Chance has quite a few vulnerable moments where it's clear how worried he really is about making it through the standoff.

** John Wayne calling Walter Brennan a treasure and kissing him on the head.