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El Dorado (1967)

Western | 126 minutes
3,47 241 votes

Genre: Western

Duration: 126 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan

IMDb score: 7,5 (33.017)

Releasedate: 17 December 1966

El Dorado plot

"It's The Big One With The Big Two!"

Cole Thornton is hired by a rancher as a pistolero, but hears from an old acquaintance, who is now a sheriff, that the man is causing a lot of trouble in the state. He gives up and now helps the sheriff in his fight against the rancher. He also helps the sheriff with his drinking problem.

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Dr. Miller

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scorsese

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Good film in which a gun for hire is hired to resolve a dispute between two men. A western with a simple, but well constructed story. A little action, a little humor and a little suspense. Perhaps a bit on the long side, but this is made up for by the entertaining characters (something the cast certainly contributes to).

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Bobbejaantje

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This is awesome. And not even for the reasons I expected. A western from veteran Howard Hawks starring icons John Wayne and Robert Mitchum (and the young James Caan added). Music by Nelson Riddle, one of my favorite composers/arrangers. All the ingredients seem to be there for an old school western. The first twenty minutes it seems very much like that. But after the scene where James Caan kills a criminal with his knife, the tone changes and it starts to look more and more like a comedy/parody.
In previous decades, every western had its comedic sidekick, but in this El Dorado the good guys, including the lead roles, seem to be each other's sidekick. To the extent that they represent a greater danger to each other than the bad guys manage to threaten them. John Wayne is twice shot by people who are on his side (1 time by Michele Carey and 1 time by accident by James Caan), and he is never shy of a comedic one-liner. Robert Mitchum shows his most drunken side, literally gets flipped over by a frying pan and considers a ticket sale while in the bath. James Caan is a failed poet, not a shooter, and then walks around with a double barrel that previously belonged to a blind man. And then there's Arthur Lee Hunnicutt, deputy sheriff who uses bugle and bow and arrow (!).
The ending is also telling, when John Wayne and Robert Mitchum walk out of the picture, half lame and with crutches. Nobody gets the girl.

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