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Print courtesy of the Tim Hunter Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
Directed by Howard Hawks
Director Howard Hawks' El Dorado wasn’t actor Robert Mitchum’s last Western, but it’s certainly his best late career work in the genre until his amazing cameo in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man 30 years later. This near reprise of Hawks' Rio Bravo finds Mitchum playing an alcoholic sheriff alongside John Wayne’s veteran hired killer and James Caan’s young gun as the trio of misfits who come to the aid of family and town menaced by an evil rancher.
Paramount. Producer: Howard Hawks. Based on a novel by Harry Peter M’Nab Brown. Screenwriter: Leigh Brackett. Cinematographer: Harold Rosson. Editor: John Woodcock. Cast: John Wayne, Robert Michtum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Arthur Hunnicutt.
35mm, Technicolor, 126 min.
