who played the colorado kid in rio bravo
Ricky Nelson
title: Rio Bravo (film) text: Rio Bravo (film) 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 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 title: Rio Bravo (film) text: by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, sings a specially composed song, "Rio Bravo", written by Tiomkin with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. Nelson later paid homage to both the film and his character, Colorado, by including the song "Restless Kid" on his 1959 LP, "Ricky Sings Again". Members of the Western Writers of America chose "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. A brief clip from "Rio Bravo" was among the archive footage later incorporated into the opening sequence of Wayne's last film, "The Shootist," to illustrate the backstory of Wayne's title: Rio Bravo (film) text: retrieves it, but Dude cautions him to mind his own business. Malcolm Atterbury and Harry Carey Jr. also receive a screen credit in the film's opening, but their scenes were deleted from the final film. Exteriors for the film were shot at Old Tucson Studios, just outside Tucson. Filming took place in the summer of 1958, and the movie's credits gave 1958 for the copyright; the film was released in March 1959. "Rio Bravo" is generally regarded as one of Hawks' best, and is known for its long opening scene which contains no dialogue. The film received favorable reviews, and title: Rio Bravo (film) text: innkeeper (Carlos), his wife (Consuelo), and an attractive young woman (Feathers)—and repeatedly turns down aid from anyone he does not think is capable of helping him, though in the final shootout they come to help him anyway. "Who'll turn up next?" Wayne asks amid the gunfire, to which Colorado replies: "Maybe the girl with another flower pot." In the United Kingdom, "Rio Bravo" was not originally even reviewed for "Sight & Sound"; Leslie Halliwell gave the film two out of four stars in his "Film Guide", describing it as a "cheerfully overlong and slow-moving Western" that was nevertheless "very watchable title: Pierce Gagnon text: Johnson said, "Looking back I'm kind of terrified that I hinged the success of the backend of the movie on finding someone like Pierce. It's really rare to find a kid who can do what he does. He would do three-page dialogue scenes with Emily [Blunt] and Joe [Gordon-Levitt] and hold his own against them all the way through." After voicing Tiago in "Rio 2", the sequel to the 2011 film "Rio", Gagnon played Tucker Bloom in the comedy-drama film "Wish I Was Here". He played Ethan Woods, the android son of Molly Woods (Halle Berry), in the CBS science