Chris Conrad, in today's Tempo in the Medford Mail Tribune, has a wonderful column about his grandmother, The Andy Griffith Show, John Wayne and the movie Rio Bravo that is worth reading. One quote:
To read the rest here is a link: http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120706/TEMPO/207060306What I liked most about "The Andy Griffith Show" was it's meandering plots that would echo some of my favorite movies. I would later learn that the show was loosely modeled after "High Noon" — the unshakable sheriff holding court in a small town — but the western it most resembled was the Howard Hawks and John Wayne masterpiece "Rio Bravo."
"Rio Bravo," released a year before "The Andy Griffith Show" debuted, told the story of a lackadaisical sheriff, played nicely by The Duke, who was ambivalent toward the idea settling down with one women, and his bumbling deputy Stumpy, embodied by the great Walter Brennan.
