El Dorado (film)
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| Directed by | Howard Hawks |
| Produced by | Howard Hawks |
| Written by | Harry Brown (novel The Stars in Their Courses) Leigh Brackett |
| Starring | John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix |
| Music by | Nelson Riddle |
| Cinematography | Harold Rosson |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 7 June 1967 |
| Running time | 126 min. |
| Language | English |
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El Dorado is a 1967 western movie starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. It was directed by Howard Hawks and released by Paramount Pictures. This film was written by Leigh Brackett. It was based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown. Nelson Riddle wrote the musical score. The film was shot in Technicolor and lasted 126 minutes.
It was the second film in a trilogy directed by Hawks varying the idea of a sheriff defending his office against belligerent outlaw elements in the town: the other two films were Rio Bravo (1959) and Rio Lobo (1970), both also starring John Wayne.
[edit] Trivia
The similarity between Rio Bravo and El Dorado gave rise to an amusing exchange in the 1995 movie Get Shorty. In this scene, L.A. drug dealer Bo Catlett (Delroy Lindo) breaks into the home of B movie and horror movie actress Karen Flores (Rene Russo) in order to steal a valuable movie script. He accidentally touches the TV remote and switches on a cable channel, which is showing Rio Bravo. This awakens Flores and her boyfriend, mafia enforcer Chili Palmer (John Travolta). The pair confront Catlett and, in an attempt to talk his way out of the situation, Catlett confuses details about the respective casts of Rio Bravo and El Dorado. Palmer, a film buff and would-be movie producer, is appalled at this lack of knowledge and proceeds to give the bemused Catlett a tongue-in-cheek lecture setting the facts straight.
Film footage from El Dorado was later incorporated into the opening montage of Wayne's final film, The Shootist, to illustrate the backstory of Wayne's character.
[edit] Cast
In El Dorado, Wayne (Cole Thornton) is joined in the cast by Robert Mitchum (Sheriff J.P. Harrah), James Caan (Mississippi), Arthur Hunnicutt (Bull Harris), Charlene Holt (Maudie), Michele Carey (Josephine 'Joey' MacDonald), Ed Asner (Bart Jason), Christopher George (Nelson McLeod), R. G. Armstrong (Kevin MacDonald), Paul Fix (Dr. Miller), Robert Donner and Jim Davis.
[edit] External links
- El Dorado at the Internet Movie Database
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