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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

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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 16, 2008 Type: User Review Fan Of john Wayne

I wanted this movie for my John Wayne collection. I saw it when it can out in the movies and needed to add it to my DVD collection. This is one of the best of Waynes's Movies.
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From: Amazon Posted: Apr 24, 2008 Type: User Review El Dorado

A comical and serious movie. Robert Mitchum and John Wayne together were really good.
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From: Amazon Posted: Apr 09, 2008 Type: User Review Great western

They just don't make movies like this anymore, which is why I like these westerns more and more as time goes by. Good guys and bad guys, horses and guns, Robert Mitchum and John Wayne! What more could you ask?

Oh,and lets not...
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From: Amazon Posted: Mar 25, 2008 Type: User Review Very Quotable!

John Wayne and James Mitchum were great in this movie. Lots of good humor and memorable quotes.
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From: Amazon Posted: Mar 15, 2008 Type: User Review A good John Wayne Western (Waynestern) and the second installment of the Howard Hawks trilogy

Some say that Howard Hawks made the same picture three times with Rio Bravo, El Dorado, and Rio Lobo. In the broad strokes, it is true. John Wayne isn't the straight romantic lead in any of them, but has his interests. There are several...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 28, 2008 Type: User Review An Awesome, action-packed, Western!

First off, let me start by saying that, contrary to the popular belief here, El Dorado is definitely NOT a remake of Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Special Edition). Yes, there are a similar themes that run through both: A drunken lawman, holding up in the...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 12, 2008 Type: User Review My all time favorite John Wayne film and Western

I am about 50. And I have a fairly large DVD collection and before that LD (never collected VHS). I have a TIVO and have had one for about 9 years. I am always looking for more good films. So with that background understand that I have been...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 28, 2007 Type: User Review Another good John Wayne movie

This is one of the classic John Wayne movies. If you like John Wayne, you have to own this movie. You will want to watch it over and over again.
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From: Amazon Posted: Nov 23, 2007 Type: User Review One of the best movies of all time

I haved loved this movie since i was a child watching it with my dad. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum play in this classic western. Mitchum plays a sheriff who is gutsy but has fallen for a woman who hs past through and she breaks his heart to where...
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From: Amazon Posted: Oct 28, 2007 Type: User Review Pretty good, but at times slow

The background behind the story is great, and generally the actors did a good job bringing the characters to life. But there were some times where I found myself waiting for things to happen, which to me is an indication of poor pacing in the...
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