John Wayne and Robert Mitchum were two of the biggest Western stars of their day, and their eventual team-up in El Dorado was ...

Hired gunman Cole Thornton (John Wayne) turns down a job with Bart Jason (Edward Asner) as it would mean having to fight an old sheriff friend (Robert Mitchum). Some months later, he finds out the ...

especially after the finely honed humor and action of El Dorado," Ebert said. "Perhaps Hawks was reluctant to quote too much ...

John Wayne had already remade 1959’s Rio Bravo, a film about a sheriff defending his office from outlaws, in 1966’s El Dorado. Yet Howard Hawks, who directed both films, wanted to make it a ...