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El Dorado (1966)

 -  Western  -  7 June 1967 (USA)
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Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

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Mississippi
Charlene Holt ...
Maudie
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Dr. Miller
Arthur Hunnicutt ...
Bull
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Josephine (Joey) MacDonald
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Kevin MacDonald
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Marina Ghane ...
Maria
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John Gabriel ...
Pedro
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Luke MacDonald
Robert Rothwell ...
Saul MacDonald
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Storyline

Hired gunman Cole Thornton turns down a job with Bart Jason as it would mean having to fight an old sheriff friend. Some months later he finds out the lawman is on the bottle and a top gunfighter is heading his way to help Jason. Along with young Mississippi, handy with a knife and now armed with a diabolical shotgun, Cole returns to help. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

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They were friends. They were enemies. A passerby could not tell which was who. This was the seething sultry Old Southwest. Where loyalties and labels shifted with the sands, the winking of an eye, the wavering of a gun! See more »

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Western

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Release Date:

7 June 1967 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Eldorado  »

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Box Office

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$6,000,000 (USA)
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1.85 : 1
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Trivia

Arch-conservative John Wayne did not get along with actor Edward Asner, whose politics were quite liberal, during filming, and constantly referred to Asner as "that New York actor". See more »

Goofs

The bugle that Bull plays is a 4 note horn, which in reality cannot play some of the songs that Bull plays on it throughout the movie. See more »

Quotes

Cole: Last time you took the front door and I took the back, this time we'll do'er the other way around.
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Connections

Followed by Rio Lobo (1970) See more »

Soundtracks

"Hotel Piano No. 1"
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Sukman
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User Reviews

 
A Pleasant Surprise
24 October 2006 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

This was a pretty solid western, one I enjoyed more than I thought I would. What I liked about it were the interesting characters and the fact it was nicely filmed, as westerns tend to be. People focus on the big stars of this film and often miss how good the visuals are in here.

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan all played characters that were fun to watch. When I first saw this about 10 years ago, it was a shock to see how young Caan looked. It had to be one of his first films. Six years after this, he made it big in "The Godfather."

Wayne and Mitchum, of course, were already major motion picture celebrities and I liked the way they traded off each other in this movie. It was really good to see these two guys in the same film. With those two, and the nice photography, this would be a good pickup on DVD.


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