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With John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt. Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with 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 who's trying to steal their water.
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- Drama, Romance, Western
- Howard Hawks
- 1967-06-30
El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.
Heartless tycoon Bart Jason (Edward Asner) hires a group of thugs to force the MacDonald family out of El Dorado so he can claim their land. J.P. Harrah, the...
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- John Wayne
- Howard Hawks
- Western
El Dorado. The opening credits feature a montage of original paintings that depict various scenes of cowboy life in the Old West. The artist was Olaf Wieghorst, who appears in the film as gunsmith Swede Larsen. Helpful • 153 3.
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Cole Thornton (John Wayne) is a gunfighter who comes to El Dorado Texas at the request of Bart Jason (Edward Asner). But before seeing Jason, he meets an old friend, J.P. Harrah (Robert Mitchum), the Sheriff. He tells Cole Jason wants him to help gets the MacDonalds off their land because their land is the source of water.
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El Dorado. "El Dorado" is a tightly directed, humorous, altogether successful Western, turned out almost effortlessly, it would seem, by three old pros: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and director Howard Hawks. You could call it, of course a "John Wayne Western."
