Rio Lobo, a remake of Rio Bravo and El Dorado, came out in 1970 and featured John Wayne as the lead. Wayne played Cord McNally, a Civil War veteran searching for two traitors who caused McNally’s unit ...
John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo, a film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws, in 1966’s El Dorado. Yet Howard Hawks, who directed both of those films, wanted to make it a ...
In comparison to the recent re-release of Wayne's classic True Grit, Rio Lobo is very impressive, but that is only because it isn't full of the artificial processing that made robbed that particular ...
John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo, a film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws, in 1966’s El Dorado. Yet Howard Hawks, who directed both of those films, wanted to make it a ...
In 1970 the publicity machine was knocking itself dead, extolling Howard Hawks's "Rio Lobo" even before it was finished. Much was made of Hawks being reunited with saddle pard John Wayne, with whom he ...
John Wayne was battling health issues and recovering from a painful injury while filming Rio Lobo, yet the Western remains one of the best. By 1970, John Wayne had already cemented his place as ...