El Dorado (1966)
- Directed by
- Howard Hawks
- Genre
- Western film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 01m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 589 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An aging gunfighter rides to help an old friend who is a washed up sheriff. The sheriff is struggling to protect a rancher from a wealthy landowner who is stealing the rancher's water.
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What happens
El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown, the film is about a gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend who is a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to steal their water. The supporting cast features James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, Michele Carey, R. G. Armstrong, Ed Asner, Christopher George, Adam Roarke, and Jim Davis. The film was first released in Japan on December 17, 1966, and then in the United States on June 7, 1967. The film received critical praise and was commercially successful, generating North American rentals of $5,950,000 on box-office receipts of $12 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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