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El Dorado

1966

Howard Hawks

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt ...

7.7

14,039

Western Hired gunman Cole Thornton turns down a job with Bart Jason as it would mean having to fight an old sheriff friend. Some months later he finds out the lawman is on the bottle and a top gunfighter is heading his way to help Jason. Along with young Mississippi, handy with a knife and now armed with a diabolical shotgun, Cole returns to help.

	Author	Review
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"A very funny, very moving work, graced by the cinema's cleanest, most classical style"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"An elegy on lost youth assuaged by friendship"	POS
United States	The New York Times	"A tough, laconic and amusing Western that ambles across the screen as easily as the two veteran stars (...) Mitchum is simply wonderful"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A tightly directed, humorous, altogether successful Western (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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