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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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7 June 1967 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Eldorado  »

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$6,000,000 (USA)
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Trivia

The poem recited by Mississippi is an actual poem called "El Dorado" by Edgar Allan Poe. See more »

Goofs

During the shootout inside the church, J.P. draws his revolver and shoots at the Limping Man as he flees. He is using a Double Action Revolver (it appears to be a S&W 38), but then they all gather out on the street, near where the sign hit the Limping Man and he is trying to load his revolver, it is now a Single Action Revolver (Colt Peacemaker). See more »

Quotes

Mississippi: [while mixing some hangover cure] Let's see. We got ipecac and mustard and cayenne. That leaves us asafetida.
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Referenced in Something to Do with Death (2003) See more »

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"Hotel Piano No. 1"
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Music by Harry Sukman
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"Ride Baldy Ride, to the end of the rainbow."
5 February 2006 | by (Buffalo, New York) – See all my reviews

Unless you count their joint appearance in The Longest Day, El Dorado deserves its place in Hollywood history for being the only co-starring effort of John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.

Besides being good friends Wayne and Mitchum were both known for being able to drink just about anyone else in the film business under the table and still report to work in the morning, lines letter perfect. But Mitchum was not allowed in the Wayne home because Pilar Wayne never forgave him for ruining their honeymoon when Mitchum backed out of Blood Alley and Wayne had to star as well as produce it.

I also think that the Duke was leery about Mitchum stealing too many scenes which he does when they are on the screen together. In this tighter and faster remake of Rio Bravo, Wayne is his usual stand up hero, rough and tough, but who lives by a code. Mitchum is the flawed one. During an interlude of several months in the film, Mitchum becomes enamored of an unseen woman, loses her, and becomes a drunk.

Which leads me to one of the funniest scenes ever in a Wayne film. When Christopher George and fellow gunmen are hired by villain Ed Asner to run R.G. Armstrong and his family off their ranch, Wayne has to sober up Sheriff Mitchum and fast.

Every time I watch El Dorado, I get hysterical every time I watch James Caan pour a homemade remedy down Mitchum's throat with Wayne and Arthur Hunnicutt holding him down. And the reactions afterwards, absolutely priceless. This is where Mitchum steals the movie.

As in many a Howard Hawks film, there is a theme of professionalism that runs through it. Whether it's Cary Grant and his fellow pilots flying over treacherous terrain in South America, Humphrey Bogart with his charter boat business in the Caribbean, or Wayne and Mitchum going up against fellow professional Christopher George, it's doing the job and doing it well for it's own reward.

The final gunfight is also a classic. Let's just say that Mitchum and Wayne are not at their best, but they make up for it with some help from interested friends.

This is one of the best films, in the top 10 for both these guys and shouldn't be missed.


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