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 films, wanted to make it a third time ...
18:39, Thu, Sep 11, 2025 Updated: 18:39, Thu, Sep 11, 2025 Back in 1970, John Wayne teamed up with Howard Hawks once again, after Rio Bravo and El Dorado, for Rio Lobo. And just like the previous two ...
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 ...