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El Dorado

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El Dorado
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NR,2hrs 6min
Genres:
Western,Action
Released:
June 7, 1967
Director:
Howard Hawks
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan  ...more
Synopsis: Having struck pay dirt with his 1958 western Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks more or less remade the picture twice in the 1960s. The first of these rehashes was El Dorado, with Rio Bravo star John Wayne back for more. Wayne plays a gunfighter who rides into El Dorado to link up with his old pal, sheriff Robert Mitchum ("It's the big one with the big two!" declared the film's advertisements). Wayne has turned down a job with evil land baron Ed Asner, who'd hoped to drive a family off the land that he needed ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Essentially the same plot that Hawks had previously used in Rio Bravo (1959) and would return to in Rio Lobo (1970), El Dorado deals with his characteristic themes of friendship and professionalism. John Wayne plays aging, wounded gunfighter Cole Thornton, who joins forces with his old friend J.P. Harrah (Robert Mitchum), a sheriff turned alcoholic, and young knife-thrower Mississippi (James Caan), ... Full Review
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John Wayne
Cole Thornton
Robert Mitchum
Sheriff J.B. Harrah
James Caan
Alan Bourdillon Traheme (Mississippi), Alan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi)
Charlene Holt
Maudie
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