Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix Directed By: Howard Hawks Average Rating: Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Number of Items: 1 Release Date: February 19, 1997 Running Time: 126 minutes Theatrical Release Date: June 07, 1967
Amazon.com essential video: 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
The Over the Hill Gang. , widescreen Mitchum(Baby,I don't care) seems to be having the most fun in playing the part of the drunken sheriff; his performance seemed most convincing.( Overall Dvd quality is good and with fine opening credits.)If they played this for farce,they may have gotten away with it. 2 Spitoons...just for Bob. (This was a big hit when it opened way back when so I guess they DID get away with it)Your move.
Fan Of john Wayne I wanted this movie for my John Wayne collection. I saw it when it can out in the movies and needed to add it to my DVD collection. This is one of the best of Waynes's Movies.
El Dorado A comical and serious movie. Robert Mitchum and John Wayne together were really good.
Great western They just don't make movies like this anymore, which is why I like these westerns more and more as time goes by. Good guys and bad guys, horses and guns, Robert Mitchum and John Wayne! What more could you ask?
Oh,and lets not forget the scene where commie-lib Ed Asner gets pistol-whipped by Robert Mitchum. That alone makes it worth buying.
Very Quotable! John Wayne and James Mitchum were great in this movie. Lots of good humor and memorable quotes.
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