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El Dorado [DVD] [1967]
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Release Date:09/12/2017
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Having struck pay dirt with his 1958 western Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks more or less remade the picture twice in the 1960s. The first of these rehashes was El Dorado, with Rio Bravo star John Wayne back for more. Wayne plays a gunfighter who rides into El Dorado to link up with his old pal, sheriff Robert Mitchum ("It's the big one with the big two!" declared the film's advertisements). Wayne has turned down a job with evil land baron Ed Asner, who'd hoped to drive a family off the land that he needed for its water. That family, headed by R.G. Armstrong, is convinced that Wayne is working with Asner; when Armstrong's son Johnny Crawford dies, Wayne is held responsible, earning him a bullet in the spine from Crawford's sister Michele Carey. A year passes: Wayne returns to El Dorado, in the company of his new saddle pal James Caan. They find that Asner is still up to his old tricks, and that Mitchum has descended into alcoholism. Several plot twists and power shifts ensue, leading to the slam-bang climax, with the partially paralyzed Wayne, the newly crippled Mitchum (on crutches), and the concussion-suffering Caan battling together to stave off Asner's minions. The final long-shot, of Wayne and Mitchum limping off together arm-in-arm, is one of the most enduring images in the entire Hawks canon. If they loved it twice they'll love it thrice: in 1969, John Wayne and Howard Hawks teamed up for a third Rio Bravo derivation, Rio Lobo--which, like the first two films, was scripted by Leigh Brackett. Incidentally, that's famed artist Olaf Weighorst (whose paintings appear in the title sequence) in a cameo as the gunsmith.~Hal Erickson
Director
- Howard Hawks
Writer
- Leigh Brackett
Cast
- John WayneCole Thornton
- Robert MitchumSheriff J.B. Harrah
- James CaanAlan Bourdillon Trehearne (Mississippi)
- Charlene HoltMaudie
- Michele CareyJoey MacDonald
- Paul FixDoc Miller
- Arthur HunnicuttBull Harris
- Ed AsnerBart Jason
- R.G. ArmstrongKevin MacDonald
- Christopher GeorgeNelse McLeod
- Marina GhaneMaria
- John GabrielPedro
- Robert RothwellSaul MacDonald
- Robert DonnerMilt
- Adam RoarkeMatt MacDonald
- Victoria GeorgeJared's Wife
- Anne NewmanSaul MacDonald's Wife
- Johnny CrawfordLuke MacDonald
- Olaf WieghorstGunsmith
- Anthony RogersDr. Donovan
- Charlita
- Don CollierDeputy Joe Braddock
- Chuck CourtneyJared MacDonald
- Nacho GalindoMexican Saloonkeeper
- Betty Jane Graham
- Buzz Henry
- Riley Hill
- Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr.
- Frank Leyva
- Ruben Moreno
- Dean SmithCharlie Hagan
- Rosa TurichRosa
- Ralph Volkie
- Christopher West
- Danny Sands
- Linda Dangcil
- William HenrySheriff Tod Draper (uncredited)
- John MitchumJason's Bartender
- Chuck RobersonJason's Gunman
Crew
- Howard HawksProducer
- Paul HelmickProducer
- Harry BrownBook Author
- Farciot EdouartCinematographer
- Harold Hal RossonCinematographer
- Nelson RiddleComposer (Music Score)
- Nelson RiddleMusical Direction/Supervision
- Carl AndersonArt Director
- Hal PereiraArt Director
- Ray MoyerSet Designer
- Robert R. BentonSet Designer
- Edith HeadCostume Designer
- John R. CarterSound/Sound Designer
- Paul K. LerpaeSpecial Effects
- Wally WestmoreMakeup
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