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"Rio Bravo" shown Wednesday afternoon at ReStore

Do you like a good Western movie?

If so, you are in luck. ReStore's Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies this week features "Rio Bravo."

The movie will be shown at 1 p.m., Wednesday, March 4. It is free and open to the public.

Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond.

Written by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett, based on the short story "Rio Bravo" by B. H. McCampbell, the film is about the sheriff of the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, who arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher in order to help his drunken deputy/friend.

With the help of a cripple and a young gunfighter, they hold off the rancher's gang. Rio Bravo was filmed on location at Old Tucson Studios outside Tucson, Arizona, in Technicolor.

In 2014, Rio Bravo was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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