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The supporting cast features James Caan as the young gambler, Charlene Holt, Ed Asner, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, Michele Carey, and Christopher George. El Dorado was filmed on location in Tucson, Arizona and Kanab, Utah, and was shot in Technicolor. Official site of Holiday Inn Express Suites El Dorado. Stay Smart, rest, and recharge at Holiday Inn Express Best Price Guarantee. The Road To El Dorado Free Online' title='The Road To El Dorado Free Online' />The paintings in the credits are by Olaf Wieghorst, who plays Swede Larsen in the film. The musical score was composed by Nelson Riddle. Paramount Pictures delayed the release of the film in the United States to avoid competing against another Paramount film, Nevada Smith with Steve Mc. Queen. The film was first released in Japan on December 1. United States on June 7, 1. The film received critical praise and was successful at the box office, generating North American rentals of 5,9. El Dorado is the second of three films directed by Hawks about a sheriff defending his office against belligerent outlaw elements in the town, after Rio Bravo 1. Rio Lobo 1. 97. 0, both also starring Wayne in approximately the same role. Order Reds And Grays Cartoon. The plotlines of all three films are almost similar enough to qualify El Dorado and Rio Lobo as remakes. Dean Martin had portrayed the drunken sheriff in Rio Bravo, preceding Mitchum in the part, while Walter Brennan played the wild old man role later rendered by Arthur Hunnicutt, and Ricky Nelson appeared as a gunslinging newcomer similar to Caan in El Dorado. Members of the Western Writers of America chose the films theme as one of the Top 1. Western songs of all time. Cole Thornton John Wayne, a gunslinger for hire, is hired by wealthy rancher Bart Jason Ed Asner to help him in a range war with the Mc. Donald family in the town of El Dorado. The local sheriff, an old friend of Thornton, J. P. Harrah Robert Mitchum gives Cole more details that Jason had deliberately left out, including the possibility of having to side against Harrah. Unwilling to fight his friend, Thornton quits, to the relief of saloon owner Maudie Charlene Holt, who is in love with Thornton and was for a time a romantic interest of Harrahs. The Mc. Donalds learn of Thorntons presence in town. Fearing that he might come for them, Kevin Mc. Donald R.  G. Armstrong puts his youngest son, Luke, on guard. When Thornton passes by on his way back from rejecting Jasons offer, Luke Johnny Crawford, who has fallen asleep, wakes and fires a wild warning shot whereupon Thornton reflexively shoots him. Luke is still alive when Thornton finds him, but he refuses treatment based upon the belief that a gut shot man wouldnt have a chance anyway and commits suicide when Thornton turns his back on him. Thornton subsequently brings the boys body to the Mc. Donald ranch and offers an explanation. The only Mc. Donald daughter, Joey Michele Carey, impulsively rides off before Thornton can finish his story and ambushes him shortly thereafter. Her shot is not fatal, but the bullet lodges next to Thorntons spine and in time begins to trouble him by occasionally pressing against the spinal cord, causing temporary paralysis of his right side. The local doctor, Dr. Miller Paul Fix, does not have the skill to remove the bullet and Thornton soon departs El Dorado for a new job. Several months later, Thornton runs into another gunslinger for hire named Nelson Mc. Leod Christopher George and a young greenhorn with a peculiar hat called Mississippi James Caan, who has come for revenge against one of Mc. Leods men for the murder of his old friend and mentor, Johnny Diamond. Mc. Leod has been hired by Jason for the same job Thornton turned down and Thornton hears from Mc. Leod about how Harrah has turned into a drunk after an unhappy love affair. Thornton decides to return to El Dorado, hoping to save Harrah from being gunned down by Mc. Leod and his men. He is followed by Mississippi who also wishes to help, despite his lack of experience and terrible aim with a gun. Once Thornton and Mississippi arrive in El Dorado, they hear more of the story behind Harrahs change. The two men then join with Deputy Sheriff Bull Arthur Hunnicutt in order to get Harrah sober and cleaned up. Mississippi contributes an old folk recipe for a hangover that he learned from Johnny Diamond, promising it will make any man unable to drink liquor for a while. The concoction proves to be violently effective, and leaves Harrah sober and furious. Within a day of their arrival, Mc. Leod and his men also come to El Dorado and are hired on by Bart Jason. When one of them shoots one of the Mc. Donalds, Thornton, Harrah, Bull and Mississippi chase the shooter and his friends into an old church and then into Jasons saloon. Harrah arrests Jason and takes him to the jail for his part in the shooting of one of the Mc. Donalds. Later that night, Thornton and Mississippi decide to patrol the town in the hope of keeping the peace and are deputized by Bull. There is another shootout with Mc. Leod and his men, which results in a minor leg injury for Harrah. The next day, Maudie sends a message to Thornton and his friends, stating that Mc. Leods men are frightening her and her patrons. When Thornton and Mississippi go to help her, they are ambushed and Thornton has an attack that leaves him partially paralyzed and captured by Mc. Leod. Subsequently, Mc. Leod trades the injured Thornton for Bart Jason, a trade to which Harrah agrees, despite knowing that doing so will mean that nothing will stand in the way of Mc. Leod going after the Mc. Donalds. Sure enough, Mc. Leod and his men shortly thereafter kidnap one of the Mc. Donalds in order to force Kevin Mc. Donald to sign over his water rights to Jason. Thornton and the others are forced to quickly come up with a plan to rescue Kevin Mc. Donalds son and neutralize Jason and Mc. Leod. Despite Thorntons paralysis and Harrahs leg injury, the two of them, along with Bull and Mississippi, return to town on wagons. While Thornton distracts Jason and Mc. Leod outside of the front of the saloon, Mississippi, Harrah and Bull attack from the rear. The kidnapped Mc. Donald is rescued, with a little help from Joey Mc. Donald. Jason, Mc. Leod and his men are killed, and order is restored to El Dorado. Thornton also begins to imply that he may discontinue his wandering ways in order to stay in the town with Maudie. ProductioneditLeigh Brackett wrote the original script which she described as the best script I had ever done in my life. It wasnt tragic, but it was one of those things where Wayne died at the end. However she says the closer they got to production the more we got into doing Rio Bravo over again the sicker I got, because I hate doing things over again. And I kept saying to Howard I did that, and hed say it was okay, we could do it over again. Mitchum later said, When Howard called me, I said, Whats the story and he said, No story, just characters and thats the way it was. Did one scene, put it away, did another, put it away. Shot at Old Tucson Studios just west of Tucson, Arizona, as well as in and around Kanab, Utah, from October 1. January 1. 96. 6, the film was Waynes 1. The War Wagon, but its release was delayed so that Paramounts Nevada Smith with Steve Mc. Queen would not have to compete with a John Wayne film at the box office. El Dorado finally reached the theatres in June 1. The War Wagon had opened. Film footage from El Dorado was later incorporated into the opening montage of Waynes final film, The Shootist, to illustrate the backstory of Waynes character. Director Don Siegel used no scenes from any film shot before 1.