What We Got: Mike Conley 

Pat Wheeler: A game-legged old man and a drunk? That's all you got?

John T. Chance: That's what I got.

That exchange occurs in Rio Bravo, the 1959 Howard Hawks western that is one of my very favorite films. Wheeler, played by bit player supreme Ward Bond, is concerned about his friend Chance (John Wayne), a small-town sheriff ...

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