Now "Rio Bravo" is regarded as one of the great Hollywood westerns and one of John Wayne's best, even if the rest of the "trilogy" it inspired doesn't quite live up to that watermark.

Rio Bravo is not only one of John Wayne’s best Westerns, ... great performances from musicians Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson, along with well-known Western veterans Ward Bond and John Russell.

Rio Bravo was the highest-grossing Western of 1959, raking in over $10.5 million. That might have had to do with the stand-out cast — John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Angie Dickinson ...

That means that Dec. 2, TCM will host a free screening of the John Wayne movie “Rio Bravo,” which just happened to have been filmed at Old Tucson 60 years ago. It'll be at the Fox Tucson ...