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Rio Lobo

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Rio Lobo (1970)

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Reviews Counted:18

Fresh:13

Rotten:5

Average Rating:6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Westerns

Synopsis: 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... 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 in order to take down a thieving bootlegger. Their travels take them to a small town being held in terror by an evil Sheriff. McNally and his crew decide to help the townspeople with their own brand of justice. With a considerable amount of humor and Hawks's reliable formula in which a motley band of men unite for a common cause, RIO LOBO is a fitting conclusion to both his western trilogy and a distinguished career. [More]

Starring: John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam

Starring: John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam, Victor French, Susana Dosamantes, Christopher Mitchum, Mike Henry

Director: Howard Hawks

Director: Howard Hawks
Screenwriter: Burton Wohl, Leigh Brackett
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Producer: Howard Hawks

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Apr 29, 2003

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A film of mementos, of deliberately pale shadows

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09/06/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

Hawks' direction is as listless as the plot.

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05/13/08
Variety
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For such a refined director as Hawks to end his career on a note like this, having made some of the finest films in the history of American cinema, is an atrocity not worth the silver used in the negative.

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05/13/08
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Hawks last Western is his weakest collaboration with Wayne, but the film offers an occasion to see the aging Duke trying to rise above the routine plot and amateurish ensemble, including Sherry Lansing who would become a powerful Hollywood studio exec.

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11/04/07
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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05/07/07
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
FulvueDrive-in.com

If it lacks the formal perfection of Rio Bravo and the moving elegy for men grown old of El Dorado, it's still a marvellous film.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

John Wayne is great to watch, and the train holdup sequence that leads the film is genuinely exciting.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A rambling Western.

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10/01/05
Dennis Schwartz
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04/27/05
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

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11/19/04
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
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In this case, the story itself doesn't matter much. We go to a classic John Wayne Western not to see anything new, but to see the old done again, done well.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Wayne is always fun to watch, even in lesser form here.

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10/16/04
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

A John Wayne western; what more could you want?

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09/24/04
Tony Medley
Tony Medley
Tolucan Times

The Duke rules with his iron fists in Hawks's wily westerner.

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06/26/04
Frank Ochieng
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Disappointing.

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05/24/03
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08/07/02
Philip Martin
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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
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The fact that its best action sequence, the first, was directed by the second unit is emblematic of Hawks's relative lack of engagement with the material.

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