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Rio Lobo Details

1970

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Starring	Christopher Mitchum, John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero
Director	Howard Hawks
Genres	Action/Adventure

Rio Lobo

John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre Cordona (Jorge Rivero) and Tuscarora Phillips (Christopher Mitchum), who were acting as soldiers, but he still wants the two unknown men on the Union side who they say sold them the information about the gold shipments. A year later, McNally crosses paths with one of the men, now a deputy from Rio Lobo, who is about to take Shasta Delaney (Jennifer O'Neill), a seemingly innocent young woman, out of a neighboring town at gunpoint. A shootout ensues, in which McNally's man and three other Rio Lobo deputies are killed, with help from Cordona -- this makes McNally very interested in what's going on in Rio Lobo, and he decides to go there with Cordona and Shasta. They find a whole community under siege from their own sheriff, a sadistic ex-outlaw named Hendricks (Mike Henry). What follows is a series of confrontations and revelations that are alternately suspenseful, sadistic -- with maimings worthy of a spaghetti western and characters even getting blown to bits -- and even occasionally comical. But the pieces all tie together very neatly, despite a convoluted plot that's sort of Rio Bravo (made 11 years earlier, also starring Wayne and directed by Hawks, and scripted by Leigh Brackett) turned sideways and readjusted to a more cynical era.~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

Starring	Christopher Mitchum, John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam, Victor French, Susana Dosamantes, Mike Henry, Christopher Mitch
Director	Howard Hawks
Studio	PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 48 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 54 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Wild Westerns
Genres	Action/Adventure
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Subtitles	Blu-ray: Castilian Spanish, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Released	Production year: 1970 To Rent: DVD: 07 Jun 2004 Blu-ray: 19 Sep 2011

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  Run of the mill Wayne western but still good
  
  This is just a run of the mill westaern. Wayne has to find 2 men who gave vital information to the enemy in the American Civil War. Only for true John Wayne ... read more »
  
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  rio lobo
  
  great film i like good old big juke
  
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  Not too bad
  
  The storyline is not bad. Ive seen better John Wayne films
  
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  - Basildon
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  Typical John Wayne
  
  A reasonable story line with one or two twists, typical of the John Wayne series.
  
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  Howard Hawks's final film once again teams him with John Wayne, with a script by Leigh Brackett (who also wrote his EL DORADO and RIO BRAVO). The time is just after the end of the Civil War. Wayne is Union Colonel Cord McNally, who is teamed with two Confederate soldiers he captured during the war ...

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  John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre ...