John Wayne and Robert Mitchum were two of the biggest Western stars of their day, and their eventual team-up in El Dorado was ...
The Baker actor was the brother of Robert Mitchum, who Wayne had starred opposite in 1967’s El Dorado. During filming on Chisum, John introduced Duke to patriotic poetry, which greatly moved ...
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 ...
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 ...
After making Red River with John Wayne in 1948, Hawks continued working ... between the 1959 Western Rio Bravo and the 1966 ...