Posts from colkid60 in thread „No one better directs The Duke than Howard Hawks in 'Rio Lobo'“

Barry Peters. "I always wondered how they ever got the job."
My opinion, but I believe Duke wanted the young people in
his movies. It spread his appeal to another generation.
I was so glad to see Ricky Nelsen in this movie. He sang also.
In "North to Alaska," Fabian did an outstanding job of
playing that part of being smitten with Capucine. Made the
movie better for me. One of my favorite wayne movies.

I thought Rio Lobo was bad in some of the same ways you guys wrote about. Stilted speaking, etc. However
they aren't making any more John Wayne movies, so I don't judge it so harshly now.
Couldn't the director have coaxed some better lines out of some of those people. Duke was still great in it.