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MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #202
- IMDb #468
- Google retired #829
- Rotten Tomatoes #269
- Metacritic #117
- Letterboxd #281
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #345
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #554
- Metacritic Critics #112
- Metacritic Audience #360
- Criticker #162
- Kinopoisk #1286
- AlloCiné #425
- Trakt #526
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 94, everyone else 82.
See the most agreed on films →A small-town sheriff in Texas arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher for murder. Knowing the rancher will try to break his brother out of jail, the sheriff must hold his prisoner until the U.S. Marshal arrives. He enlists the help of a drunk, a young gunfighter, and an old crippled man to defend the jail.
Details
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Writers
- Howard Hawks, Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett
- Released
- 8 March 1959
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
- $5.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 major award won · 1 win from 3 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Golden Globe Award 1959 | New Star of the Year – Actress | Angie Dickinson | Winner |
| Directors Guild of America Award 1959 | Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Nominee | |
| Golden Globe Award 1958 | New Star of the Year – Actor | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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3 awards — Rio Bravo
×| New Star of the Year – Actress | Angie Dickinson | Winner |
| New Star of the Year – Actor | Nominee |
| Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Nominee |