

El Dorado
It's the big one with the big two!
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $4.7M
- Box office
- $6M
- Language
- Spanish
- sheriff
- based on novel or book
- texas
- ranch
- settler
- liquor
- revolver
- two guns belt
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalG7 Jun 1967
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)London20 Jul 1967
- TheatricalPG6 Aug 1967
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG30 Jun 1967
AustriaAT
- Theatrical1 Oct 1967
BrazilBR
- Physical12IMDB1 Mar 2000
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1512 Jun 1967
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1615 Sept 1967
- TheatricalK-16Re-release11 Apr 1975
FranceFR
- Theatrical28 Jun 1967
- TheatricalRe-release27 Feb 2013
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12West Germany22 Sept 1967
IcelandIS
- Theatrical31 Jan 1970
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG4 Aug 1967
ItalyIT
- PremiereTaormina Film Festival22 Jul 1967
- Theatrical1 Sept 1967
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El Dorado was released on 17 December 1966.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
10/21/2015
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 C…
- C8/10
CinemaSerf
3/29/2024
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 (“…
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