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 ...

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 making of ...