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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: WAYNE,JOHN EAN: 9780792160809 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0792160800 Label: Paramount Languages: Manufacturer: Paramount MPN: 097360662542 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 21, 2000 Running Time: 126 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: June 07, 1967 Editorial Review: Product Description: Mitchum stars as an alcoholic sheriff whose old friend-turned gunfighter Wayne helps him fight greedy cattlemen. Genre: Westerns Rating: NR Release Date: 28-MAR-2006 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com essential video: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fan Of john WayneI 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. Rating:  - El DoradoA comical and serious movie. Robert Mitchum and John Wayne together were really good. Rating:  - Great westernThey 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 forget the scene where commie-lib Ed Asner gets pistol-whipped by Robert Mitchum. That alone makes it worth buying. Rating: - Very Quotable!John Wayne and James Mitchum were great in this movie. Lots of good humor and memorable quotes. Rating: - A good John Wayne Western (Waynestern) and the second installment of the Howard Hawks trilogySome 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 beautiful young women in different roles in the film and there is a younger man, usually a male star that someone is trying to push (Ricky Nelson, James Caan, and Jorge Rivero). And Wayne is fighting some mysterious guy with all the money trying to cheat and drive ... Read More |
