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- 1970
- Passed
- National General Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
- 1970
- Passed
- National General Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
Summary After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Written By: Burton Wohl, Leigh Brackett
- 1970
- Passed
- National General Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
- 1970
- Passed
- National General Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
Rio Lobo
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5.0
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Summary After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Written By: Burton Wohl, Leigh Brackett
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
14% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
55
29% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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, so that we can sink into the genre and feel confident we won't be betrayed.
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.
Fairly routine western makes a disappointing swansong for Hawks. Still good fun though, if you like this kind of thing.
There are a few good scenes—an intricately executed train wreck, for example—but the movie is notably slack where it should be zestful.
Rio Lobo is the sort of western that John Wayne and producer-director Howard Hawks do in their sleep. But by no stretch of nostalgia does it match such previous Wayne-Hawks epics as Red River or Rio Bravo.
While no Hawks movie can be considered a total loss, this reductive replay of Rio Bravo and El Dorado is too peevish to qualify as tragic, and only occasionally funny.
Only the performance of Elam remains lively, but it is the type of characterization he has done dozens of times. A sad finale to Hawks's magnificent career.
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