El Dorado
by Howard Hawks
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Actor: Charlene Holt, James Caan, John Wayne, Paul Fix, Robert MitchumDirector: Howard Hawks
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson
Producer: Howard Hawks
Editor: John Woodcock
Producer: Paul Helmick
Writer: Harry Brown
Writer: Leigh Brackett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of El Dorado
Movie Review: Better than Rio Bravo
Summary: 4 Stars
I just had to write a review, Amazon states that this film is worse than Rio Bravo. No film is worse than Rio Bravo, trust me. I had this on VHS tape, glad to own the DVD now, looks much better than the tape and its in widescreen. You have James Caan and Robert Mitchum, this film is classic, well worth the [..] bucks, this is a top 25 western of all time, and a top ten western of the 1960's.
Summary of El Dorado
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.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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