El Dorado

1966 • 2h 6m •

Western Drama

MOVIEVIBE Rating

★ 7.4/10

605 reviews

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Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

"It's the big one with the big two!"

Top Billed Cast

John Wayne

Cole Thornton

Robert Mitchum

Sheriff J.P. Harrah

James Caan

Mississippi

Charlene Holt

Maudie

Paul Fix

Dr. Miller

Arthur Hunnicutt

Bull Harris

Michele Carey

Josephine (Joey) MacDonald

R.G. Armstrong

Kevin MacDonald

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

J John Chard Verified TMDB Critic

2015-10-21

Big heavyweight movie all round.

Directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne & Robert Mitchum, it's safe to say that El Dorado comes with some pretty tough credentials. Thankfully the expectation that comes with such a teaming is well and truly met. The plot is a familiar one in the context of Wayne & Hawks, if you have seen Rio Bravo? And liked it? The chances are you will like this one too.

Wayne is Cole Thornton, a hired gun who is asked to come on the payroll of El Dorado landowner Bart Jason (Ed Asner), who is involved with a land struggle with the MacDonald family. Cole fin...

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic

2024-03-29

Definitely one of Howard Hawks' better collaborations with John Wayne. A reasonably strong story about a rancher and his family trying to defy an avaricious and violent Ed Asner ("Bart Jason") who is trying to take over everything he can. There are similarities with "Rio Bravo" (1959) but I think here there is more tangible chemistry between Wayne ("Thornton") and Robert Mitchum as the washed-up drunk of a sheriff (“JP Harrah"). James Caan brings some cheeky charm to his role as the shotgun-toting and poetry-spouting "Mississippi" and Arthur Hunnicutt takes on the reliable foil role (often p...