El Dorado

Name: El Dorado
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Released: June 7, 1967
Duration: 126 min
Rating: 85
Cast: Arthur Hunnicutt, Charlene Holt, Christopher George, Edward Asner, James Caan

1967

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 7, 1967 | TV-PG

Starring: Arthur Hunnicutt, Charlene Holt, Christopher George, Edward Asner, James Caan, John Wayne, Michele Carey, Paul Fix, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Mitchum

Summary: 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.

Director: Howard Hawks

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Western

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 126 min

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Dave Kehr

It's a very funny, very moving work, graced by the cinema's cleanest, most classical style. Read full review

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Michael Wilmington

El Dorado is essentially a darker remake of Rio Bravo, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Hunnicutt and James Caan as the now archetypal quartet. But, though the situation is the same, the mood is crisper, tenser, with a heightened sense of pain, loss and death underlying the humor and action. Read full review

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It's a witty, exciting and deeply moving masterpiece. Read full review

Richard Brody

Director Howard Hawks makes a familiar plot resound strangely with new sexual overtones. Read full review

Howard Thompson

The taut guidance of Mr. Hawks, an old frontier hand, the barbed, pungent and frequently funny dialogue, plus some murderous gun forays, add up to crisp entertainment Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

It’s not that Hawks’ style rescues El Dorado; it’s that it integrates all of these problems, producing a movie that feels effortlessly complete and consistent, despite being, frankly, all over the place. Read full review

Pauline Kael

John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, parodying themselves while looking exhausted. When the movie starts, you have the sense of having come in on a late episode of a TV series.

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Steven1981

Mar 25, 2020

EL DORADO is probably the best western movie ever made.. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum star in this 1967 film and also features a young James Caan and the film involves a drunken sheriff (Mitchum) and John Wayne and Robert Mitchum team up to take down some badguys.. I don't know the exactEL DORADO is probably the best western movie ever made.. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum star in this 1967 film and also features a young James Caan and the film involves a drunken sheriff (Mitchum) and John Wayne and Robert Mitchum team up to take down some badguys.. I don't know the exact story of El Dorado but I've seen it and it's a very good film, very well acted and entertaining and I don't think I've seen a better western if I'm honest. This films faultless in every aspect and has no weaknesses and the action scenes well done. May contain some romance.… Expand

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