John Wayne's Rio Bravo was released 66 years ago, and his much younger leading lady co-star, Angie Dickinson, shared how "adorable" Duke was on set.

Rio Bravo official trailer with John Wayne

Back in 1959, John Wayne made a patriotic comeback to Westerns in Rio Bravo. After John Ford’s The Searchers, Duke had made an effort to move away from the genre, however, the movies he made afterwards weren’t as well received.

Heading back to the Wild West with director Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo would be a response to 1952’s High Noon, which was viewed as an allegory of the Hollywood blacklisting of suspected communists in the film business. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT

John Wayne believed the movie to be “un-American” and Hawks disliked how the sheriff ran around asking for help fro

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