2. Rio Bravo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ssbgThljU Howard Hawks' classic country film Rio Bravo stars John Wayne, rat pack member Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson as a band of Texans trying to keep the murdering Joe Burdette behind bars. Throw in some foxy Angie Dickinson action and you've got the makings of one of the best westerns in film history. In the town of Rio Bravo, Joe Burdette is arrested for a bar-fight murder. John Wayne, Dean Martin's Dude (which precedes Jeffrey Lebowski by decades), Walter Brennan's toothless but lovable Stumpy and Ricky Nelson's Colorado Ryan are taxed with the job of keeping Joe behind bars. Joe's brother, unfortunately for the sheriff and his associates, is a rich and powerful man willing to, like that Sublime song, sing 187 on a muh-fuh cop. Spending the night in prison, virtually the only safe place for the officers, Nelson pulls out a guitar. While Colorado slowly strums along to Stumpy's harmonica, Dean Martin begins singing a song about the beauty of the Texan countryside. The song, "My Rifle, Pony, and Me" allows the group to calmly reassemble and bond together. While showing off the impressive pipes that led to superstar careers of Martin and Nelson, the song also reflects the beauty of Texas Hawks' camera captures. Like I said before, country music can be alright when the musicians aren't singing about sticking boots inside of people.