9 Movies That Were Responses To Other Films

3. Rio Bravo Was Made After Howard Hawks Saw High Noon (And Hated It)

Fred Zinnemann's 1952 Gary Cooper-starring western High Noon may have won four Oscars and been nominated for three more, but you know who sure didn't like it? John Wayne and his frequent collaborator, the legendary director Howard Hawks.

High Noon is widely-remembered for its left-learning politics and fairly transparent allegory of McCarthyism, which prompted Wayne to call it "the most un-American thing I've ever seen in my whole life" and expressed no regret for helping its writer, Carl Foreman, be subsequently blacklisted from Hollywood for his apparent Communist sympathies.

Wayne and Hawks then teamed up to make 1959's Rio Bravo, which took a similar premise - a lawman bravely squaring off against a gang of vicious killers - but imbued it with a more traditionally "masculine", right-wing mindset, where men don't have emotions or any internal conflict and just get the violent job done as efficiently as possible.

Hawks flat out said, "I made Rio Bravo because I didn't like High Noon", and though they're both great movies, it's hard to ignore that Wayne and Hawks basically made an entire film motivated by passive-aggressiveness.