The great thing about a hit film hitting DVD or Blu-ray is that often you’ll get tied in releases of similar (and usually older) titles. Perhaps Paramount would have eventually gotten to A Man Called ...

Rio Lobo, a remake of Rio Bravo and El Dorado, came out in 1970 and featured John Wayne as the lead. Wayne played Cord McNally, a Civil War veteran searching for two traitors who caused McNally’s unit ...

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 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 ...

George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western "Rio Lobo." In this special we see him talking to Hawks about whether he'll be killed off or not, ...

Western about a former Union Army colonel who sets out to find the two Yankee traitors responsible for the loss of a gold shipment and the death of his best friend.