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

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.

easygoingwarmbittersweetslow-pacedcharacter-drivenclassicslightly melancholicheartfelt

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)

Trailer

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