John Wayne and Robert Mitchum were ... However, upon arriving in the town of El Dorado, Thornton discovers from his old ...

Hired gunman Cole Thornton (John Wayne) turns down a job with Bart Jason (Edward Asner) as it would mean having to fight an old sheriff friend (Robert Mitchum). Some months later, he finds out the ...

John Wayne struggled with health problems and through action scenes on Rio Lobo, including carrying his co-star Jennifer O'Neill, who was punched by director Howard Hawks.

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 ...