Monday, August 3, 2026

Question: Director Howard Hawks filmed this 1959 Western, starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, at Old Tucson Studios. Name the film.

Answer: Rio Bravo. The film cast John Wayne as a sheriff defending his jail against a powerful rancher’s hired guns, with Dean Martin among the co-stars, and Hawks turned Old Tucson’s dusty streets into the fictional town of Rio Bravo, Texas. Columbia Pictures had built Old Tucson in 1939 for the film Arizona, and hundreds of Westerns followed on its Old West sets.