'Rio Bravo'

I wonder how the casting director, director and producer went on making "Rio Bravo."

Did they just want big names and Dean Martin and Rick Nelson came up? Did they intentionally get two popular singers? Did they cast them, realize they had two singers and then write in a bunch of singing into the movie?

Seems too far fetched to be a coincidence.

Nonetheless, it's a good film. Martin looks fat and I wonder if they had him gain weight.

The best part of the film is the chemistry between John Wayne and Walter Brennan. For one, it's brilliant that Brennan rode that old-man face and frontier, prairie wind accent to a ton of success in film, particularly westerns.

However, you can tell that Wayne and Brennan probably liked each other and were prone to goofing on each other when the cameras weren't rolling. Watch this film and pay attention to their physicalness and the way their verbal jabs look like they're in the locker room snapping each other's asses with wet towels.