El Dorado (1966)

• Year: 1966
• Released: 30 Jun 1967
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 2 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061619/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/el_dorado
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/el-dorado
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish
• MPA Rating: Passed
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
• Runtime: 126 min
• Writer: Leigh Brackett, Harry Brown
• Director: Howard Hawks
• Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
• Keywords: based on novel or book, texas, sheriff, ranch, settler,

	7.5/10
	85/100
	100% – Critics
	87% – Audience

El Dorado Storyline

Cole Thornton is a gunfighter who comes to El Dorado on the request of Bart Jason. But before seeing Jason, he meets an old friend, J.P. Harrah, the Sheriff. He tells Cole Jason wants him to help gets the MacDonalds off their land because their land is the source of water. Cole goes to Jason and rejects his offer, he then goes to MacDonalds but one of them who was on guard takes a shot at Cole and Cole shoots back killing him. It’s one of MacDonalds’ sons. He brings the boy to his father and tells him, what happened but his daughter doesn’t believe him. When Cole leaves she takes a shot at him but only wounding him. He goes to see the doctor who tells him, the bullet is lodged against his spine and needs a better doctor to remove it. He leaves and goes wandering around, eventually while in another town, he sees a young man challenge another man to fight him. The other one doesn’t think he has nothing to worry about because he doesn’t have a gun but the young man pulls a knife and throws it at him killing him. When one of the other men, tries to kill the young man, Cole intervenes. Cole then talks to the leader Nelse Mcleod another gunfighter. He tells Cole he’s on his way to El Dorado; he was summoned by Jason. Cole tells him J.P. Harrah won’t let him do what Jason tells him to do but Mcleod tells Cole Harrah is now a drunk. So Cole rides off to El Dorado and along the way he loses feeling because of the bullet. The young man follows him and helps him. He tells Cole his name is Mississipi and would like to tag along but before they go any further, they get him a gun but he says he’d not good with a gun. Cole tells him he’ll need it. When they arrive at El Dorado, they find Harrah drunk. Mississipi makes a concoction that wakes him up and also makes him unable to drink but when he gets up all he wants to do is drink. And everyone thinks he’s a joke.

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El Dorado Movie Reviews

A Pleasant Surprise

This was a pretty solid western, one I enjoyed more than I thought I would. What I liked about it were the interesting characters and the fact it was nicely filmed, as westerns tend to be. People focus on the big stars of this film and often miss how good the visuals are in here.

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan all played characters that were fun to watch. When I first saw this about 10 years ago, it was a shock to see how young Caan looked. It had to be one of his first films. Six years after this, he made it big in “The Godfather.”

Wayne and Mitchum, of course, were already major motion picture celebrities and I liked the way they traded off each other in this movie. It was really good to see these two guys in the same film. With those two, and the nice photography, this would be a good pickup on DVD.

Good but we’ve seen it all before,…

I really enjoyed this movie. It’s one of Wayne’s better films and it’s nice to see him paired with Robert Mitchum. However, it very quickly became obvious to me that this is essentially a remake of Wayne’s earlier picture, Rio Bravo. The plot is the same and Mitchum is playing the same drunk character that Dean Martin played in Rio Bravo. The earlier film is much better–mostly because it was so much more original. Yes, I’m sure some astute viewers will also find a few other minor differences between the films, but overall it’s almost the exact same experience. So my advice is try to see Rio Bravo first–then, if you’d like, see this film. After all, in 4 out of 5 cases original films are better than remakes.

Elegiac masterwork

El Dorado is a wonderful film. It is elegiac, always entertaining, skillful and I think warm-hearted too. The film looks beautiful, the cinematography and scenery are both a delight to the ears. Nelson Riddle’s score is pleasant too, while the film is brilliantly directed by Howard Hawks, the script is thoughtful and entertaining, the story never loses momentum and the pace while deliberately elegiac is spot on. There is also a superbly staged preface, which is one of the assets that gave El Dorado its heart. The acting from the leads is superb, John Wayne is a great charismatic presence here and Robert Mitchum gives one of his best performances, and they work very well together. All in all, a wonderful film and a textbook example of a fine movie of its genre. 10/10 Bethany Cox