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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 ...
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
John Wayne filmography. Publicity photo from The Long Voyage Home in 1940. American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation.
Nov 10, 2023 · Directed by Howard Hawks and released in 1966, the film tells the story of a gunfighter named Cole Thornton who is hired by a wealthy rancher to help protect his land from a rival family....
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- 4K
- Jim The Movie Geek
3 days ago · After a failed swindle, two con-men end up with a map to El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold," and an unintended trip to the New World. Much to their surprise, the map does lead the pair to the mythical city, where the startled inhabitants promptly begin to worship them as gods.
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Cole Thornton (John Wayne), the gunslinger for hire with the lightning-fast right hand, rides into the dusty town of El Dorado Texas to work for the ruthless local landowner, Bart Jason (Edward Asner).
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Wayne plays a professional gunman who comes to town to take a job from a rich rancher who wants a poor rancher's water (who says the plot has to be original?). But the sheriff turns out to be his old buddy, Mitchum, and so he turns down the job.
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