RIO LOBO John Wayne, Howard Hawks & Bigfoot! with Chris Mitchum 

I like this episode, again and again and again,,,

These personal stories and recollections are priceless. Thanks for keeping the west alive for us all. I truly enjoy your videos.

So much to appreciate in memories and film productions.

Chris Mitchum seems like a great person. Down to earth, not stuck on himself. I always thought he was a great actor and loved his movies.

Fascinating ! Love hearing the stories. Amazing how much Chris is like his Dad.

Thank you soo much for these talks, l love everyone and hearing the history. 😊😊

Westerns are the best !! May they never die😃surely miss the Duke!!

Excellent tutorial Cheers from Pennsylvania Blessings 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Great interview -- I could listen to Chris Mitchum tell his stories all day - he should write a book! Thanks Rob - you always ask great questions and your enthusiasm and knowledge of westerns make your channel special -- and sorry, the screen test has to be in 4K -- next!

I love CM. He is a great actor and he seems like a very talented person and I loved his father. They were great actors

What a down to earth guy Chris Mitchum. Thanks for the memories Chris and Rob!

I wouldn't class myself as a Western Fan but, historically seen, this interview is extremely valuable, giving insights into an era and a part of a world so remote that it may as well be an unscripted film scene on Mars. Thankyou both, especially Chris, for the detailed candid discussion, bringing many a broad grin in astoundment.

I'd pay today to see a movie with Chris Mitchum in the cast

You crack me up with your phone interview Rob. Chris Mitchum has great memories and wonderful stories. Love how he just tells the stories - makes feel like I was there. By the way Rob you're hired playing Woody. Fun.

Rio Bravo was 1959, Eldorado was 1967, and Rio Lobo was 1970 - Great actor and interview and movie with excellent actors!

Bless your heart Rob for working so hard on keeping the memories of the westerns alive!! We ALL APPRECIATE YOU!!! Ok take a bow!! Lol Really enjoyed this one too! 👍

Another wonderful interview! Thanks so much for your excellent work, Rob. We really enjoy your segments!!

Keep them coming .. love your shows.

I want you to know I enjoy this so much I watched the commercials all the way through for your revenue stream.

I love to hear actors talk about their their experiences working on movies!

yes sir,you would be a perfect woody strode.the resemblance is remarkable.

another good on rob. good stories. eldarado my favorite.

The 3 Hawks movies that were "the same" in the correct order were Rio Bravo (1959), El Dorado (1967) and Rio Lobo (1970).

His Tuscarora in Rio Lobo is wonderful - as was his Michael McCandles in Big Jake. And this interview is both really funny and informative. Chris Mitchum is great! Thanks, Rob!

Listening to Chris Mitchum, I'm beginning to believe he inherited the eidetic memory that his father, Robert was said to have. The way Chris rattled of how much he made and all the other memories is amazing. As always, great interview.

I always love Western movie l love John Wayne the Duke. I always wanted to be an actress since I was young just didn't know how to go about. Of course I'm older. Love Sylvia 😊☮️✌️🐎

I wanted to be Chris Mitchum when I was a kid! seeing him in all of those westerns I was close to his age (within 10 or 12 years) I could relate to the characters he played and thought he was one of the coolest good guys ever, and still is!

Terrific interview. Thanks Rob

"You ready? If you ain't, I'll go by myself." -Jack Elam to John Wayne., Rio Lobo

I saw Rio lobo in 1970 on the big screen wow absolutly love the color and the sound of the movie thanks Ward for this video

According to IMDB, Chris had a political disagreement with John Wayne after Big Jake and they never reconciled.

Thanks Rob . I was a big fan of the Howard Hawks westerns. I loved Thunder Road great movie.

Wonderful, enjoyed every second. Isn't about time to get Dean Smith on? Bet he has a lot to share.

Well done , going back to the years movies and actors were the best .

I would much rather see one of these great old westerns on the big screen than any of the tripe they produce in Hollywood today. One movie Mr. Mitchum and the Duke, and his sons Ethan and Patrick were all in, and one of my favorites, ''Big Jake''. What a classic!

what a delightful guy I really like listening to him and watching him I love these father in movies but he himself is a delight

I was in love with Robert Mitchum. Lol I was a child the first time I saw him. You have his eyes. I thought that was his most sexy feature

Chris Mitchum Top man Top stories Top show Thanks Rob

Thank you so much for making these, your a good interviewer and the guests and topics keep me coming back !

Brilliant interviewing by you Rob, but all these clips are too short. Fascinating minutiae on the the old Westerns, lots of lighthearted banter, I've enjoyed watching the videos very much. Well done.

Priceless..

_The Big Sleep_ by Howard Hawks made me a fan of Howard. _His Girl Friday_ is another classic. I'm 22 years old currently, binge watching a lot of the older stuff to get more context in film history. It's been really fun.

Excellent interview thanks for the video.

Great video. I liked all the John Wayne movies that you 2 discussed. 👍😎

Thanks for your informative interviews. Your insights into the production of some of our favorite films is very interesting and valuable.

Another great vid and subject matter.

My memory of Chris mitchum was in the John Wayne classic, Big Jake. A great movie.

"… and I'm auditioning for the part of Woody Strode", lol ! No, don't think u could get away with that Rob ... Good Interview btw

FACT: After listening to Mr. Mitchum talk about the his last audition experience it is no wonder that movies are so terrible now a days.

Great guy, wonderful stories

One of your best!

Great interview! Love the new theme music.

As he grew older, you saw his father.

Watching these interviews with Chris, Ive sadly discovered that all the actors that Duke used on a normal basis were black balled in HollyWood because Duke was a conservative, and liberals are suppose to be the tolerant ideology

I like this interview. Very interesting. Mitchum was one of my favorite actors. It’s cool to see his son and hear these stories.

It's true those 3 movies are very similar. Each movie had a character named after a geographic location. i.e. - Rio Bravo( RB) had Colorado, El Dorado (ED) had Mississippi, and Rio Lobo (RL) had - Frenchie. Each movie had a main girl - RB had Feathers, ED had Maudi and RL had Shasta. All three had a drunk type of guy - RB had Dude, ED had JP Harrah and RL had Mr Phillips. They all had a scene depicting a trade of one guy for the other. (The good guy for the bad guy- in RB it was Joe Burdette for Dude, in ED it was Cole Thornton for Bart Jason and in RL in was Mr Kechum for Frenchie All three had a shootout at the end of the movie that ended up having unexpected help. RB - the help came from Stumpy and Carlos, ED the help came from - Joey McDonald and in RL the help came from some of the guys that fought in the war with them. Each movie had the main character played by John Wayne - RB John T Chance, ED - Cole Thornton, and RL he was Cord McNalley. Each movie had a scene where they holed up in the town jail until the law showed up. Each movie had a character that was funding the bad guys. RB - had Nathan Burdette, ED had Bart Jason and RL had - Mr Kechum aka Sergeant Major Ike Gorman. All three had Dr's. Dr Miller was in ED, Dr Jones was in RL and in RB the Dr was only referred to. He was never scene. All three movies had someone guarding someone in jail. RB had Stumpy guarding Joe Burdette, ED had Bull guarding Bart Jason, and in RL it was Mr Phillips guarding Mr Kechum. In each movie a girl was dressed scantily clad. RB it was Feathers, ED it was Maudi and in RL it was Amelita and Shasta was in undergarments, but Amelita was topless. (Two separate scenes) All three movies had Bad guys. RB had Joe Burdette, ED had Nelse McCloud, and Rio Lobo had "Blue" Tom Hendricks. There are still more things but I think I got a little carried away...Sorry.

Name for me the scene in the other two movies where the girl is topless! Also for the record the movie El Dorado came out before the movie Rio Lobo!

"In the Bigfoot movie his uncle John was in it with John Carradine and I always thought that John was an underrated actor and most younger brother actors were not as big as the older brother actors but were still great actors and John was in a couple of Dirty Harry movies as Dirty Harry's first partner."-🤔🖥☕🍺🌐..

Growing up in Southern Calif gave me the opportunity to see a number of movie and TV stars usually at the LA Ram and Dodger games. I also got on the Warner Bros lot for a day and watched a number of TV series being filmed in the middle 70's

Very much loving these Word on Westerns. Western movies are my absolute favorite movies to watch and if it was up to me its all I would watch. Thanks to channels like Grit and Encore Western we can still watch all the old westerns of yesteryear. Thanks Mr. Word for bringing these to us. I enjoy hearing all the backstories and other informational tidbits.

Thanks so much Rob . I’ve been watching Westerns since the late 1940s ,enjoy the memories !!!

Great interview, Chris always comes across as a likable guy! Woody Strode! What a guy, I became a fan as kid when he did several episodes of Tarzan with Ron Ely. Sergeant Rutledge and Who Shot Liberty Valence were my favorites!

It's so had to find decent clean movies and shows any more so I always have loved westerns and and any kind of historical period type of movies /shows . Thank you so much for a refreshing walk down memory lane !

I’ll have to look up that Bigfoot movie! Lol

Rob, We need to share A Few Good, Bad, & Ugly Words = Best Interview. Good: It's as if you are the Maple Tree. Bad: The Maple Sap who's mind you're tapping. Ugly: Chris's Hat(May be it's the lighting at Gene Autry's Museum? It is May, isn't it? No May be about it! Da, Dum, Dum! 🤓

Edward Faulkner as L.T. Harris, Piter Jason as L. T. Forshite

❤❤❤ I have loved Christopher Mitchum forever! He and Patrick Wayne are the reason I saw “Big Jake!” in the theater 100’s of times.

Thanks, Rob! Chris is a great interview, so many stories.

These are really good, enjoy the back stories and trip down memory lane.

Chris Mitchum was great in those westerns. Thank you for sharing this.

Thank you for these wonderful interviews, Rob! It was such a pleasure to meet you and Christopher last year at the Memphis Film Festival. Looking for forward to seeing you out in the trail again on the near future!

He looks so much like his dad in this video.

Shoot, I always thought I was slick when talking about John Wayne.. I knew that Rio Bravo and El Dorado was pretty much the same movie...Didn't realize Rio Lobo was... But Rio Bravo Remains my Favorite Western... I think Old Stumpy done it. lol

i Made the jail set for Reo Lobo i but it in whale they where shooting the movie they had a big fan blowing dust every where in old Tucson i saw all the actors while i was there the years go by fast i was 24 when they made it .

Sad that in our day people on the industry don't even know the icons like John Wayne.

COOL 👏🏻🥰‼️

use to go over to chris’s aunts house in scottsdale az in early 70’s.

Boy, Chris looks like his Dad.

We need Chris Mitchum and a few more of the classics in a resurgence of westerns the way they are meant to be.

Chris Mitchum was such a hot-looking guy back in the day. So cool.

Great stories...

Chris Mitchum ought to write a book.

Glad to be able to see him again nice person

I knew they were the same movies with different names. All 3 were fun to watch.

el dorado is my fav outta of the three HH movies.

Chris looks just like his dad. Have this movie too

What a guy!! I sure do miss the old movies!!!

Enjoyed the interview! Keep 'em coming!

Great interview in a fascinating series of videos.

double dated with Chris Mitchum in the early 60's with gals from stephens college in columbia, mo...I drove & he flew in from I think from U of Maryland as he was a student there at the time...reg. guy, met him that nite & never saw him again!

Thanks for these great interviews

GREAT SHOW...

I honestly didn't know who Chris was, but when I saw him in Chisum I thought he should have been Billy the Kid, I kid you not.

rob,hands down,you are the spitting image of woody strode.you would'nt even have to go to make-up.see you in the re-make sgt rutledge.

Outstanding interview, anecdotes. You must have had a hoot making this one. Thank you.

i'm born and raised third generation Santa Barbaraian, and i met Chris Mitchum... a poumpous a hole, unlike polite folks such as Loyd Bridges and his sons, Gene Hackman, Jonathon Winters, John Carridean, the old Hollywood class acts that moved to SB and live quiet unpretentious lifestyles

Great stories but Christopher wasn't the best actor

The Remake of Sergeant Rutledge

Great interview as always.

did you realise that hawkes loved some scenes so much that bogies scene of shooting eddie mars so he goes outside to be shot by his waiting henchmen in the big sleep was reused by the duke in eldorado.