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Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara, to help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this classic western film.
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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 ...
- $5,950,000 (US/ Canada)
- Howard Hawks
- $4,653,000
- Nelson Riddle
A classic Western film starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan. Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, helps a rancher and his family fight a rival who wants their water.
When Harrah's friend, noble elder gunfighter Cole Thorton (John Wayne), learns of the predicament, he travels to El Dorado with his upstart friend, Mississippi (James Caan), to help Harrah...
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- John Wayne
- Howard Hawks
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A classic western directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne as a gunfighter and Robert Mitchum as a sheriff. Based on a novel by Harry Peter M'Nab Brown, the film features James Caan, Charlene Holt and Arthur Hunnicutt in supporting roles.
