He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

Film critic Robin Wood has said if he " were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood ... it would be Rio Bravo.

Hawks's final two films were both Western remakes of Rio Bravo starring John Wayne.

Rio Bravo, apparently a Western-everyone wears a cowboy hat-is a comedy conversation piece.

Wood named the Hawks directed Rio Bravo as his top film of all time.

* Robin Wood, Rio Bravo, ( BFI Publishing, 2003 )

In the 2002 Sight & Sound directors ' poll, Tarantino revealed his top 12 films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ; Rio Bravo ; Taxi Driver ; His Girl Friday ; Rolling Thunder ; They All Laughed ; The Great Escape ; Carrie ; Coffy ; Dazed and Confused ; Five Fingers of Death ; and Hi Diddle Diddle.

Its southern and western-most boundary with Mexico was under dispute throughout the entire existence of the republic with Texas claiming the boundary as the Rio Grande ( known as the Río Bravo del Norte or Río Bravo in Mexico ), and Mexico claiming the boundary as the Nueces River.

The Rio Grande ( known in Mexico as the Río Bravo del Norte, or simply Río Bravo ) is a river that flows from southwestern Colorado in the United States to the Gulf of Mexico.

Historically, the Pueblo and Navajo peoples also had names for the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo:

By 1602, Río Bravo had become the standard Spanish name for the lower river, below its confluence with the Rio Conchos.

Carpenter's next film was Assault on Precinct 13 ( 1976 ), a low-budget thriller influenced by the films of Howard Hawks, particularly Rio Bravo.

He not only wrote, directed and scored it, but also edited the film under the pseudonym " John T. Chance " ( the name of John Wayne's character in Rio Bravo ).

It was centered on the upper valley of the Rio Grande ( Río Bravo del Norte ), in an area that included most of the present-day U. S. state of New Mexico.

The nearby Rio Conchos flows into the Rio Bravo ( Rio Grande ) on the Mexico-Texas border.

The Kern River was originally named Rio Bravo de San Felipe by Father Francisco Garces when he explored the area in 1776.

Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson.

In the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, sheriff's deputy Dude ( Dean Martin ), who has acquired the contemptuous nickname " Borrachón ", enters a saloon to get a drink.

Angie Dickinson with John Wayne in Rio Bravo

The Rio Grande KC is also considering having their Junior Classes set up so that Juniors can qualify with points for Westminster.

Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

The type species of its genus, it is native to the Nearctic ecozone, originating in the lower Rio Grande and the Neueces and Pecos Rivers in Texas as well as the central and eastern parts of Mexico and Somalia.

In what is perhaps an anachronism, the CML in Rio de Janeiro continues to have some of the best troop units and the most modern equipment.

Command of the CML is still a coveted assignment, and the Military Village ( Vila Militar ), Rio de Janeiro's garrison or military community, is still considered one of the most important centers of military influence in the entire country.

The 1st Naval District is located at the country's main naval base in Rio de Janeiro ; the 2nd Naval District is in Salvador ; the 3rd Naval District is located in Natal ; the 4th Naval District is located in Belém ; and the 5th Naval District is located in Porto Alegre.

It is a founding member of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) and the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance ( Rio Treaty ).

White river ) is the principal affluent of the Rio Negro ( engl.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

Defense treaties to which Colombia is a party include the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance of 1947 ( the Rio Treaty ).

The Casiquiare river is a distributary of the upper Orinoco flowing southward into the Rio Negro, in Venezuela, South America.

Its mouth at the Rio Negro, an affluent of the Amazon River, is near the town of San Carlos and is above sea level.

Its width, at its bifurcation with the Orinoco, is approximately, with a current towards the Rio Negro of.

In flood-time it is said to have a second connection with the Rio Negro by a branch, which it throws off to the westward, called the Itinivini, which leaves it at a point about above its mouth.

The general slope of the plains through which the canal runs is south-west, but those of the Rio Negro slope south-east.

It is much used for the transit of large canoes, which are hauled across it from the Terni river, and which reach the Rio Negro by the little stream called the Pimichin.

During flood stage, the Casiquiare's main outflow point into the Rio Negro is supplemented by an overflow that is a second, and more minor, entry river bifurcation into the Rio Negro and upstream from its major, common low-water entry confluence with the Rio Negro.

Madrid, Aug. 28. Letters from Lisbon bring the following Account from Rio Janeiro: That the St. Augustine, of 70 Guns, having being separated from the Squadron of M. Casa Tilly, was attacked by two Portugueze Ships, against which they defended themselves for a Day and a Night, but being next Day surrounded by the Portugueze Fleet, was obliged to surrender.

Most reconstructions show Rodinia's core was formed by the North American craton ( the later paleocontinent of Laurentia ), surrounded in the southeast with the East European craton ( the later paleocontinent of Baltica ), the Amazonian craton (" Amazonia ") and the West African craton ; in the south with the Rio de la Plata and São Francisco cratons ; in the southwest with the Congo and Kalahari cratons ; and in the northeast with Australia, India and eastern Antarctica.

South Fork is surrounded by the Rio Grande National Forest and other public lands and has easy access to Wolf Creek Ski Area.

Mineral County has an extremely high proportion of land under federal ownership, with 96 % of the county under the management of the federal government ( It houses an office of, and is surrounded by, the Rio Grande National Forest ).

The village fights hard to maintain its rural character in light of being surrounded by the rapidly growing cities of Rio Rancho and Albuquerque.

The room is usually furnished with a table surrounded by 20 reproduction Adam style chairs originally made for the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro.

During the retreat, which lasted until the 14th, 50 members of the 34th Indiana's rear guard company, 30 stragglers, and 20 of the dismounted cavalry were surrounded in a bend of the Rio Grande and captured.

There are ruins of other Roman settlements along the Verde and Guadalmina rivers: Villa Romana on the Rio Verde ( Green River ), the Roman baths at Guadalmina, and the ruins of a Roman villa and an early Byzantine basilica at Vega del Mar, built in the 3rd century and surrounded by a paleo-Christian necropolis, later used as a burial ground by the Visigoths.

In October 1880, while moving along the Rio Grande in northern Mexico, Victorio and his band were surrounded and killed by soldiers of the Mexican Army under Mauricio Corredor in the Tres Castillos Mountains.

Manaus, the largest city on the Amazon, as seen from a NASA satellite image, surrounded by the muddy Amazon River and the dark Rio Negro

On May 30, 2008, the Rio opened the Sapphire Pool in conjunction with a local club: The daylight-hour, adults-only club surrounded one of the property's outdoor pools and featured dancers.

Sepetiba is a neighborhood in the western zone of Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by Santa Cruz and Guaratiba, and by the Sepetiba Bay.

When the Paulo de Frontin viaduct was opened, it gave access to Rebouças tunnel and to the city's southern zone, turning Rio Comprido a passageway neighborhood, currently surrounded by lower income communities, such as Turano, Fogueteiro, Querosene, Fallet, Coroa, São Carlos and Mineira, which suffers of violence and social exclusion.