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TITLE El Dorado (1967)

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DISABILITY Alcoholism Disfigurement Limb

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 126

GENRE Western

DIRECTOR Howard Hawks

CAST John Wayne

Robert Mitchum

James Caan

Charlene Holt

NOTES This is a sort of re-make of Rio Bravo (1959) which doesn't

achieve that film's class stature.

Wayne and Caan come to the rescue of the alcoholic sheriff

(Mitchum) as he faces the usual baddies. For a Western this

film was filmed very much inside (i..e. in a studio).

Wayne has a bullet in his back which sometimes paralyses

his right hand.

Mitchum plays a comic book drunk not unlike Dean Martin in

Rio Bravo.

One of the baddies has a long scar down his face.

The first two disabilities are there more to enhance character

than portray disability and the last is your typical 'villain's scar'.


 


Notes

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