El Dorado
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792160809
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792160800
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 21, 2000
Running Time: 126 minutes
Sales Rank: 4539
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 07, 1967
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Legendary producer-director Howard Hawks teams with two equally legendary stars, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, in this classic Western drama. Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked 'businessmen.' The Duke gives an equally adept performance as the sheriff's old friend who knows his way around a gunfight. Filled with brawling action and humor, 'El Dorado' delivers the goods. James Caan and Ed Asner co-star.
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El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks's greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks's marvelous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne's old pal, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender. James Caan, in one of his first sizable roles, plays a kid who can't shoot straight and wears a funny hat (every character in the movie makes fun of this hat). As the plot moves along, it begins to resemble Rio Bravo rather closely ('I steal from myself all the time,' Hawks was fond of admitting). But in El Dorado the heroes are a bit older, their powers a bit weaker; at the end Wayne must revert to a bit of subterfuge in order to get the drop on the steely gunslinger (ice-cold Christopher George) he needs to put down. As relaxed as the movie is, Hawks and Wayne and company are in good spirits, with plenty of broad humor and easy camaraderie on display. Hawks and Wayne would make just one more film, the disappointing Rio Lobo, before ending their fruitful partnership. --Robert Horton
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- "You tryin' to tell me I'm in the same boat as you were!?" --Wayne to Mitchum"They laughed at him, Mississippi. That'll make the difference." -- Wayne to Caan regarding Mitchum ... Read More
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- The Over the Hill Gang. , widescreenMitchum(Baby,I don't care) seems to be having the most fun in playing the part of the drunken sheriff; ... Read More
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- Fan Of john WayneI wanted this movie for my John Wayne collection. I saw it when it can out in the movies and needed to ... Read More
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- El DoradoA comical and serious movie. Robert Mitchum and John Wayne together were really good.
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- Great westernThey just don't make movies like this anymore, which is why I like these westerns more and more as time ... Read More
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