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Rio Lobo
Directed by
Howard Hawks
G
1970
1h 54m
Western
,
War
,
and more
6.7
70%
70%
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After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
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Cast of Rio Lobo
John Wayne
Col. Cord McNally
Jorge Rivero
Capt. Pierre Cordona
Jennifer O'Neill
Shasta Delaney
Jack Elam
Phillips
Christopher Mitchum
Sgt. Tuscarora Phillips
Victor French
Ketcham
Susana Dosamantes
Maria Carmen
Sherry Lansing
Amelita
David Huddleston
Dr. Ivor Jones
Mike Henry
Rio Lobo Sheriff 'Blue Tom' Hendricks
Bill Williams
Blackthorne Sheriff Pat Cronin
Jim Davis
Riley
Dean Smith
Bide
Robert Donner
Whitey Carter
George Plimpton
George, Whitey's 4th Henchman
Edward Faulkner
Lt. Harris
Peter Jason
Lt. Ned Forsythe
Chuck Courtney
Chuck, Whitey's 2nd Henchman
Robert Rothwell
Whitey's 3rd Henchman
Don 'Red' Barry
Feeny - Bartender (uncredited)
Sondra Currie
Blackthorne Prostitute (uncredited)
Chuck Hayward
(uncredited)
Conrad Hool
Bart (uncredited)
Lance Hool
Picket (uncredited)
John Hudkins
Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
Barfly in Blackthorne (uncredited)
Frank Kennedy
Minor Role (uncredited)
Richard LaMarr
Man in Army Post Saloon (uncredited)
John McKee
Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red' Morgan
Train Engineer (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Man in Army Post Saloon (uncredited)
Gregg Palmer
Pete - Henchman (uncredited)
Jim Prejean
Union Soldier (uncredited)
Rudy Robbins
Man (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Corporal in Baggage Car (uncredited)
Danny Sands
Man Delivering Message to Jail (uncredited)
Cap Somers
Card Player (uncredited)
Bob Steele
Rio Lobo Deputy (uncredited)
Tommy Tedesco
Guitar Player in Opening Credits (uncredited)
Ethan Wayne
Boy (uncredited)
Hank Worden
Hank - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Howard Hawks
Director / Producer
Burton Wohl
Writer
Leigh Brackett
Writer
Rio Lobo Ratings & Reviews
Mister Arn
February 17, 2025
“Rio Lobo” is Howard Hawks' final Western, which relies on familiar character types to stay afloat. It’s watchable for John Wayne fans, but if you’ve seen “Rio Bravo” or “El Dorado,” you’ve already seen a better take on this story.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Pleasant and perfectly acceptable.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
The Duke knows by instinct what audiences accept without question: whatever he may be called in the script, he is always unmistakably John Wayne. And who would have it any other way?
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Delightful Western with unusually rich visual style.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
A film of mementos, of deliberately pale shadows
Variety
Hawks' direction is as listless as the plot.
TV Guide
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.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
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.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
John Wayne is great to watch, and the train holdup sequence that leads the film is genuinely exciting.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A rambling Western.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
Wayne is always fun to watch, even in lesser form here.
Tolucan Times
Tony Medley
A John Wayne western; what more could you want?
Movie Eye
Frank Ochieng
The Duke rules with his iron fists in Hawks's wily westerner.
Cleveland Press
Tony Mastroianni
Rio Lobo is less for the Western movie fan than it for the John Wayne fan and it may put a strain on the latter's loyalty.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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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