Rio Lobo [Blu-ray]

Director: Howard Hawks, Yakima Canutt Howard Hawks

Overview

John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre Cordona (Jorge Rivero) and Tuscarora Phillips (Christopher Mitchum), who were acting as soldiers, but he still wants the two unknown men on the Union side who they say sold them the information about the gold shipments. A year later, McNally crosses paths with one of the men, now a deputy from Rio Lobo, who is about to take Shasta Delaney (Jennifer O'Neill), a seemingly innocent young woman, out of a neighboring town at gunpoint. A shootout ensues, in which McNally's man and three other Rio Lobo deputies are killed, with help from Cordona -- this makes McNally very interested in what's going on in Rio Lobo, and he decides to go there with Cordona and Shasta. They find a whole community under siege from their own sheriff, a sadistic ex-outlaw named Hendricks (Mike Henry). What follows is a series of confrontations and revelations that are alternately suspenseful, sadistic -- with maimings worthy of a spaghetti western and characters even getting blown to bits -- and even occasionally comical. But the pieces all tie together very neatly, despite a convoluted plot that's sort of Rio Bravo (made 11 years earlier, also starring Wayne and directed by Hawks, and scripted by Leigh Brackett) turned sideways and readjusted to a more cynical era.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/31/2011
UPC:	0097361451848
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	G
Source:	Paramount
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00
Sales rank:	5,135

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Wayne	Col. Cord McNally,Actor
Jorge Rivero	Capt. Pierre Cordona aka Frenchy
Jennifer O'Neill	Shasta Delaney
Jack Elam	Phillips
Victor French	Ketcham
Susana Dosamantes	Maria Carmen
Christopher Mitchum	Tuscarora
Mike Henry	Sheriff Tom Hendricks
David Huddleston	Dr. Jones
Bill Williams	Sheriff Pat Cronin
Edward Faulkner	Lt. Harris
Sherry Lansing	Amelita
Dean Smith	Bitey
Robert Donner	Whiter Carter
Peter Jason	Lt. Forsythe
Robert Rothwell	Whitey's Henchman
Chuck Courtney	Whitey's Henchman
George Plimpton	Whitey's Henchman
Bob Steele	Deputy Sheriff
Boyd 'Red' Morgan	Train Engineer,Train engineer
Hank Worden	Hank
Chuck Roberson	Corporal/Guard
William Byrne	Machinist
Don 'Red' Barry	Feeny - Bartender
Anthony Sparrow Hawk	(uncredited)
Charlie Longfoot	(uncredited)
Frank Kennedy	(uncredited)
John McKee	Rio Lobo Deputy,Actor
Stanley Corson	(uncredited)
Chuck Hayward	(uncredited)
Sandra Curie	Blackthorne Prostitute
Jim Prejean	(uncredited)
Danny Sands	(uncredited)
Harold Cops	(uncredited)
Sondra Currie	Blackthorne Prostitute
Conrad Hool	Lon,Picket
John Hudkins	Rio Lobo Deputy
Michael Jeffers	Barfly in Blackthorne
William H. O'Brien	Man in Army Post Saloon
Gregg Palmer	Pete
Jimmy Davis	Riley
Jerry Goldsmith	Composer

Technical Credits

Leigh Brackett

Burton Wohl

Howard Hawks	Director,Producer
Leigh Brackett	Screenwriter
Burton Wohl	Screenwriter
A.D. Flowers	Special Effects
Cliff Wenger	Special Effects
Yakima Canutt	Director
John R. Carter	Sound Effects
Rudy Robbins	Stunts