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"El Dorado (1966)" Paul's Classic Movie Club - Ep.3 - - Aaaction Podcast
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Welcome to a new series that highlights pre-1980 films in sort of a Book club format that's available on a streaming service.
For Episode 3, Paul Escarcega is joined by Drew Stewart as they review John Howard Hawk's "El Dorado (1966)".
WHERE CAN WE WATCH: Amazon Prime and Paramount Plus.
DIRECTED BY: Howard Hawks (Scarface ((1932), Bringing Up Baby, Rio Bravo)
WRITTEN BY: Leigh Brackett (The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, Empire Strikes Back) & Harry Brown (Ocean’s Eleven, Sands of Iwo Jima, Places in the Sun)
STARS: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown, the film is about a gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend who is a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to steal their water. The supporting cast features James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, Michele Carey, R. G. Armstrong, Ed Asner, Christopher George, Adam Roarke and Jim Davis.
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher who's trying to steal their water.
The film was first released in Japan on December 17, 1966 and then in the United States on June 7, 1967. The film received critical praise and was commercially successful, generating North American rentals of $5,950,000 on box-office receipts of $12 million.[4]
Roger Ebert awarded the film three and a half stars, stating: "El Dorado is a tightly directed, humorous, altogether successful Western, turned out almost effortlessly, it would seem, by three old pros: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and director Howard Hawks."[10]
The film has a 96% approval rating on review compiler Rotten Tomatoes based on 25 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.7/10.[11]
To Watch on YouTube:
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