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 incredibly kind to his Rio Lobo co-star, despite struggling with poor health on the set where director Howard Hawks punched leading lady Jennifer O'Neill. John Wayne had already remade ...

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 ...