El Dorado [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	John Wayne Robert Mitchum James Caan Charlene Holt Paul Fix
	Video by:	Warner Home Video
	Sales Rank:	91401

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Actor(s):
John Wayne
Robert Mitchum
James Caan
Charlene Holt
Paul Fix

Creators:
Harold Rosson (Cinematographer)
Howard Hawks (Producer)
John Woodcock (Editor)
Paul Helmick (Producer)
Harry Brown (Writer)
Leigh Brackett (Writer)

Director(s):
Howard Hawks

Recording label: Warner Home Video
EAN: 9780792110187
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 0792110188
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 1997-02-19
Universal product code (UPC): 097360662535
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

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El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks's greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks's marvelous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne's old pal, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender. James Caan, in one of his first sizable roles, plays a kid who can't shoot straight and wears a funny hat (every character in the movie makes fun of this hat). As the plot moves along, it begins to resemble Rio Bravo rather closely ("I steal from myself all the time," Hawks was fond of admitting). But in El Dorado the heroes are a bit older, their powers a bit weaker; at the end Wayne must revert to a bit of subterfuge in order to get the drop on the steely gunslinger (ice-cold Christopher George) he needs to put down. As relaxed as the movie is, Hawks and Wayne and company are in good spirits, with plenty of broad humor and easy camaraderie on display. Hawks and Wayne would make just one more film, the disappointing Rio Lobo, before ending their fruitful partnership. --Robert Horton

Running time: 126 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Original Language)