Just Watched--Name the Film

[Mean Bob Mean]

"I'm looking at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it."

[TwoWalks Baldridge]

"I'm looking at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it."

 El Dorado

[Major 2]

Or... Rio Bravo

though the line is from "El Dorado"   

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[Mean Bob Mean]

El Dorado

Yep, really enjoyed seeing it again, no idea how long it has been since I watched it but probably 30 years.

[Blair]

 I believe it was Rio Bravo version that JW wanted to portray the drunken Sheriff.
Wouldn't that have been interesting?
But, the Director wouldn't hear of it.
My best,
 Blair

[Mean Bob Mean]

I believe it was Rio Bravo version that JW wanted to portray the drunken Sheriff.
Wouldn't that have been interesting?
But, the Director wouldn't hear of it.
My best,
 Blair

Have you read the recent Wayne biography?

[Blair]

Mean Bob,

No, I can't say I have.
How, recent?
My best,
 Blair

[Mean Bob Mean]

Mean Bob,

No, I can't say I have.
How, recent?
My best,
 Blair

2014, Scott Eyman’s John Wayne:  Life and Legend.  Just saved one for my wife to get for me at Christmas on AbeBooks.

[Blair]

Mean Bob,

What does it have to say?
My best,
 Blair

[Mean Bob Mean]

"Wayne was a rather more cultivated man than his movie persona allowed. He was a talented chess-player and no slouch at bridge, and he had a penchant for reciting Milton and Dickens and Shakespeare from memory. Among the titles on his bookshelves were first editions of Lolita and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, as well as a complete set of Winston Churchill’s prose. True, he got into the University of Southern California on a football scholarship. But at high school, in Glendale, he had won the essay of the year award, had written for the student newspaper, was a lynchpin of the debating team and was both President of the Latin society and Chairman of the Senior Dance"

From a review at:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/06/a-new-biography-shows-that-john-wayne-was-his-own-best-creation.html#

[Blair]

Mean Bob,

Thank you. That was a good write up.

Did I get my movies mixed up?
My best,
 Blair

[Mean Bob Mean]

Mean Bob,

Thank you. That was a good write up.

Did I get my movies mixed up?
My best,
 Blair

Quote was from El Dorado.  Rio Bravo he was the Sheriff, Dean Martin was his drunkard friend who was a former gunfighter. 

[Major 2]

Bingo...that is exactly right....

similar plot and I was into that , and overlooked the rolls played 

Rio Lobo was the 3rd film with the similar plot, the common denominator being the various plots of an out numbered sheriff defending his   town against the belligerent outlaw element .

the other two denominators were  John Wayne & director Howard Hawks ...

And Blair,  Wayne finally got to play the drunken marshal he wanted to do....  in True Grit

[Coal Creek Griff]

I suspect I'm in the monority with this, but I think El Dorado is better than Rio Bravo (and far better than Rio Lobo).  El Dorado is one of the few movies that I never seem to get tired of.  I've seen it dozens of times and love it every time.  I think Robert Mitchum shines alongside Duke.  In Rio Bravo, I just can't get past Ricky Nelson.  Even Angie Dickenson kind of grates on me after a while...

CC Griff

[Major 2]

agreed CCG.... El Dorado is better....Arthur Hunnicutt was classic.

I think Hawks was attempting to do a better film, sorta fix what was wrong with Rio Bravo 
Nelson ,Martin & Angie were wrong.

 

[Mogorilla]

Glad we all don't want to dance with the same girl.     I am of a mind that Rio Bravo is the best of the three with RIo Lobo being #2.   Mainly because we had it on VCR tape and watched in varioius shades of sobriety during college.  To the point I think (after a wee nip or two) I could recite it.   Funny, as Angie Dickinson does grate, and I prefer Matty from El Dorado as far as being very easy on the eyes.   Just need to watch all three.

[The Elderly Kid]

I loved Rio Bravo as a kid. I watched it, repeatedly, when it first came out in '59.  I was just shy of 12, thus too young to wince at Ricky Nelson's acting. What I liked best was that it was, for the time, extremely violent. Walter Brennan whooping with laughter after blasting two bad guys with his shotgun always cracked me up. Not until I saw "The Wild Bunch" 10 years later did a western exceed Rio Bravo's gunfire and body count. I saw Rio Bravo at the old Vernon theater in Mt. Vernon, OH and it played along with "Ali Baba Bunny" ("Hassan Chop!").  55 years ago. Hardly seems possible.

[Major 2]

since you brought it up...

I don't recall what theater I saw Rio Bravo in , most likely the Florida, where I do remember seeing The Horse Soldiers.
Like you EK I was just shy of 12 myself....

and while I'm on the nostalgia trail, I saw The Alamo but that was at the Roosevelt Theater on Miami Beach. 

[Mean Bob Mean]

Walter Brennan whooping with laughter after blasting two bad guys with his shotgun always cracked me up.

I had precisely the same reaction when I saw it as a kid.  That was the one thing I recalled about it. 

[Texas Lawdog]

In EL Dorado, It was Maudie, not Matti. Walter Brennan was a better actor than Arthur Hunnicutt. Jack Elam was a classic character actor. You cannot leave out Dub Taylor. All of them appeared in various Duke films.