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 ...

John Wayne struggled with health problems and through action scenes on Rio Lobo, including carrying his co-star Jennifer O'Neill, who was punched by director Howard Hawks.

John Wayne was in very poor health and struggled with action scenes on Rio Lobo, the set where director Howard Hawks "punched" leading lady Jennifer O'Neill.

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 ...

Rio Lobo was the fifth time Wayne had collaborated with Howard Hawks, and probably more than any other Wayne film it typifies that overly-familiarity that his films are often accused of, because ...

Wayne’s performances in some of the best World War II movies ever made changed that reputation. These movies may not be on the same level as Wayne’s finest films like “The Man Who Shot ...

Although John Wayne played many roles in the movies — pilots, detectives, ... (1945), “Rio Lobo” (1970) and the one that propelled him to stardom, “Stagecoach” (1939). ...

John Wayne was said to have quipped, "Do I get to play the drunk this time?" when director Howard Hawks proposed a third iteration of the story first told in 1959's Rio Bravo, leading to the ...