John Wayne Rio Lobo Old Tucson Arizona 1970 #3
by David Lee Guss
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John Wayne Rio Lobo Old Tucson Arizona 1970 #3
Artist
David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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John Wayne gave his first great film performance in Howard Hawks' "Red River," shot in Elgin, Arizona a short distance from the US/Mexico border. Lensed in 1946 it wasn't released until 1948.
22 years later the Hawks/Wayne teaming ended with the pallid "Rio Lobo," the third production in their trilogy of "Rio Bravo," "Eldorado" and "Lobo."
Robert Mitchum called the script "an even bigger piece of crap than El Dorado."
Hawks had been given the opportunity to either direct it or "Monte Walsh," selecting the Duke vehicle as Lee Marvin was supposedly inebriated when discussing the project.
Hawks ended up himself feeling that Duke, at 63, was too old to carry a picture and later was quoted as saying, "I didn't think it was any good."
A friend who witnessed it told me that Duke had to use a small ladder to mount and dismount his horse.
Moments after taking this photo of Duke, I was asked to leave the set, perhaps fearing I would photograph him getting on the horse via a ladder.
Six years later Dick Cavett met Duke on the set of "The Shootist." In his concluding piece in "Talk Show," he writes that Duke during breaks "shed his boots and slipped into a chartreuse pair of those fluffy marabou slippers more associated with women. Ludicrosity rampant. Probably a custom-made joke gift from a colleague. Or taken off a very large lady."
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