Rio Lobo (Blu-ray)

Director: Howard Hawks

Stars: John Wayne

1970 USA

Western

#335

£17.99

Available: 17/11/2025

TECHNICAL DETAILS

TECHNICAL DETAILS
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Year: 1970
  • Runtime: 114
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Colour: Colour
  • Certificate: PG
  • Subtitles: Optional English SDH
  • Genre: Western
  • SKU: EKA70606
  • 1 Disc
  • Release Date: Nov 17, 2025
Format:
Region: B

SYNOPSIS

Rio Lobo is the last film by Howard Hawks, a titan of American cinema and the director of a litany of undisputed classics, including ScarfaceOnly Angels Have WingsThe Big Sleep and Monkey Business. Like his previous films Red RiverThe Big Sky and Rio Bravo, it is an ode to the Old West – a staunchly traditionalist tale of the frontier led by the genre’s biggest star, John Wayne.

Wayne stars as Colonel Cord McNally of the Union army, who loses a close friend during a raid on a Union payroll train carried out by a group of Confederates under the leadership of Captain Pierre Cordana (Jorge Rivero) and Sergeant Tuscarora Phillips (Christopher Mitchum). McNally suspects that he and his men were betrayed by traitors within the Union, setting in motion a quest for revenge that will continue even after the Civil War is over – and which will bring McNally into a bitter conflict with ruthless landowner Ketcham (Victor French) and “Blue Tom” Hendricks (Mike Henry), the corrupt sheriff of Rio Lobo, Texas.

By 1970, the Western genre was rapidly changing. In America, Revisionist Westerns – typified by the likes of The Wild BunchLittle Big Man and Soldier Blue – were questioning the established mythology of the West, while Italy’s morally grey Spaghetti Westerns were at the height of their international popularity. Meanwhile, Rio Lobo stood firm in tradition as Hawks’ final Western – and now joins the Masters of Cinema series.

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Limited Edition [2000 copies]
  • Limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork Colin Murdoch
  • Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on Rio Lobo by Richard Combs
  • 1080p HD presentation from a restoration by Paramount Pictures
  • Original English mono audio
  • Optional DTS HD-MA 5.1 audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Back to the Old West – new interview on Rio Lobo with Western scholar Austin Fisher, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western
  • New interview with film historian Sheldon Hall on the career of director Howard Hawks
  • Original theatrical trailer

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