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El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film produced and directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan. The film is loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown.


Plot[]

Heartless tycoon Bart Jason (Ed Asner) hires a group of thugs to force the MacDonald family out of El Dorado so he can claim their land. J.P. Harrah (Robert Mitchum), the town's sheriff, is too deep in the throes of alcoholism to help the family. When Harrah's friend, noble elder gunfighter Cole Thorton (John Wayne), learns of the predicament, he travels to El Dorado with his upstart friend, Mississippi (James Caan), to help Harrah clean up in time for a shootout against Jason's men.

Cast[]

  • John Wayne as Cole Thornton
  • Robert Mitchum as Sheriff J.P. Harrah
  • James Caan as Alan Bourdillion Traherne, nicknamed "Mississippi"
  • Charlene Holt as Maudie
  • Paul Fix as Dr. Miller
  • Arthur Hunnicutt as Bull Harris
  • Michele Carey as Josephine "Joey" MacDonald
  • R.G. Armstrong as Kevin MacDonald
  • Ed Asner as Bart Jason
  • Christopher George as Nelse McLeod
  • Marina Ghane as Maria
  • Robert Donner as Milt (McLeod gang)
  • John Gabriel as Pedro
  • Johnny Crawford as Luke MacDonald
  • Jim Davis as Jim Purvis (Bart Jason's foreman)
  • Adam Roarke as Matt MacDonald
  • John Mitchum as Elmer (Jason's bartender)
  • Chuck Roberson as Jason's gunman
  • Don Collier as Deputy Joe Braddock
  • Olaf Wieghorst as Swede Larsen
  • Dean Smith as Charlie Hagan
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