Leigh Brackett additionally revealed in “Backstory 2” that, when it got here to Hawks’ copycat nature, she went alongside to get alongside:

“I’ve been at swords’ factors with [Hawks] many a time as a result of I do not like doing a factor over once more, and he does. I keep in mind at some point he and John Wayne and I had been sitting within the workplace, and he stated we’ll do such and such a factor. I stated: ‘However Howard, you probably did it in ‘Rio Bravo.’ You do not wish to do that over once more.’ He stated: ‘Why not?’ And John Wayne, all six ft 4 of him, regarded down and stated: ‘If it was good as soon as it will be simply pretty much as good once more.’ I do know once I’m outgunned, so I did it. However I simply don’t love repeating myself. Nevertheless, I am flawed about half the time.”

It labored higher within the stable “El Dorado” than it did within the wholly pointless “Rio Lobo.” A lot better. However whereas Hawks made various unhealthy films put up “Rio Bravo,” they’re nonetheless agreeable. Mainly, you are watching a bunch of previous associates hang around and undergo the motions as a result of, properly, they take pleasure in it and so they determine we take pleasure in watching them play the hits. Sinatra was forgetting the phrases to “My Means” late in his profession, however nobody left an engagement with the Chairman of the Board feeling cheated. You went to be within the presence of greatness, irrespective of how light.

That is Hawks’ late-career work, and I am way more tolerant of it now that I am about to show 50 than I used to be in my 20s. We’re all charged up a few fifth Indiana Jones film with Harrison Ford despite the fact that it seems like a CG-stuffed fan flick. However so long as it isn’t a 300-pound Elvis Presley laboring by way of a late-night Las Vegas set, what is the hurt?