Video: Rio Bravo - My Rifle, My Pony And Me

YouTube Thursday: Rio Bravo

Rio Bravo - My Rifle, My Pony And Me
This is one of my favorite scenes from quite possibly the best - and certainly the most enjoyable - Western film of all time, Rio Bravo . For some wonderfully odd reason, director Howard Hawks decided to stop things for a bit, right in the middle of a rather tense plot, to have his characters sing a lonesome old cowboy song. And it works like a charm, every time. So then, here's Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson - with John Wayne looking on - doing "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me"... [...]