This is a fantastic film - one of Wayne's best Westerns in my opinion - my personal favourite scene is when Wayne comes back to town , finds Mitchum hung over/drunk and they have the punch up
John Wayne was great, everything you expect from him, but Mitchum was utterly believable and brilliant as a drunk trying to redeem his self-respect and tough enough to make it happen
This is my all time favorite movie! I watch it every time its on! Love the humor and every cast member was the best for each role! RIP to all who’ve passed!
El Dorado was the first John Wayne movie I ever saw thanks to my grandpa Jim Childs god rest his soul. He introduced me to Westerns and I got my nickname Rooster from him after many times we watched True Grit, I still watch westerns to this day because of him.
James Bowen your right and John Mitchum was a good character actor and known for his role as Digorgio in the first three Dirty Harry movies with Clint Eastwood.
I have a notion to second that emotion ! Even though it's pretty much a remake of director Hawks' own previous movie ("Rio Bravo") , it's still a wonderfully entertaining flick !! :-)
The Duke, Bob Mitchum, James Caan, Edward Ashner, Arthur Hunnicutt... what a cast! One of my favourite westerns of all time, and with plenty of laughs! 🥰🥰🥰🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
It wouldn,t even make the top 30 you forgot the searchers,high noon stagecoach,once upon in the west,good the bad and the ugly, butch and sundance winchester 73, man who shoot liberty valance
'You never gave me a chance.' 'I couldn't afford to give you one, you're too good.' Two gunfighters' mutual respect for each other. Christopher George is SO good as the henchman with a code of honor.
And the bartender was his own brother John Mitchum who later on was in dirty harry and the enforcer as degiorgio Clint Eastwoods partner the one and only Harry Callahan love Anthony Fed ex lol
Me too ! Whenever I am able to watch this classic Western, I can't wait for this segment ! I laugh & get a big kick when Bob Mitchum says "get out of way" and then at the end of the scene, John Wayne says it too !!
Whole scene is good. The way he interrupted himself. You said... I TOLD YOU, ELMER, GET AWAY FROM THAT GUN! Now, get up the other end of the bar... You were saying nobody came in here... Now you, Jason... Get out of my way... now you, Jason...
He wouldn't work with black actors. His choice, I ain't judging. Just saying he'd be canceled in a heartbeat these days Funny, that. Great actor in my book.
@@richdorak1547 Well, if you are basing it upon his comments about "The Defiant Ones" that may be incorrect. What he said was that no black man and white man would ever have been chained up together, in that part of the country. He was, in fact, correct and knew that because he was on a chain gang, when a teenager.
@@richdorak1547 He worked with black actors in the 1953 Fox feature film "White Witch Doctor". I have never read anywhere that he said he wouldn't work with black actors.
Jim Davis ( aka.Jock Ewing ) was also an awesome actor...he was in a lot of western movies and Tv shows during that era......including Gunsmoke and Dallas....RIP.... 🤠
And he was in a 1974 popular TV commercial for Coffemate non-dairy creamer. It was set in present day San Francisco. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LXOvTrGjkfo.html
I just love the old westerns. They had plenty of action but it was all legitimate action. Not a lot of sadistic, twisted s#$t like the movies today. Not realistic but not more fantasy that the modern sickness. In real life, everyone is not actually evil, mentally disturbed and crazy.
my dear old dad took me to this movie when I was a lil boy and to this day the hair on my arms rises with Mitch seeking revenge for their laughter...I saw Rio Bravo many years later but the humour in this made it real special for a spotty faced little boy...personally I think its better..as a buddy movie I mean...beautiful infact..LET ME HEAR YOU LAUGH?? LOL
JP may have been drunk as a skunk but he showed the bad guys that he still had what it takes. Mitchum's really bad ass in this clip. Great cast in this movie. $1000 in 1875 is worth almost $23,800 in 2021. As hired gunslinger McCloud, Christopher George plays it well and never gets mean or angry which is unusual for a gunman. The late Edward Asner was just 37 at the time of filming but had maturity of someone older and was perfect for the part of Bart Jason.
Probably my favorite John Wayne movie. Supposedly after Rio Bravo and this movie, Wayne told Mitchum "Next time I get to play the drunken sheriff." The result was True Grit. :)
@@RR-mg5ss it's a line in the movie🤣 after j.p.harrah finds out mississippi's real name, he looked at cole thornton kinda funny and said no wonder he carries a knife🤣
SUCH A GROUP OF GREAT ACTOR,ESPECIALLY ROBERT MITCHAM,ONE OF THE GREATEST MOST VERSATILE ACTORS TO EVER WALK THE EARTH!...I REMEMBER OUR FAMILY GOING TO SEE THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS A KID ABOUT 7 OR 8 YEARS OLD...JAMES CAAN WAS SO LUCKY TO HAVE GOT TO WORK WITH SUCH ICONIC STARS EARLY IN HIS CAREER...HEARD HIM IN INTERVIEW TELLING HOW HE HAD TO WEAR LIFTS IN HIS BOOTS BECAUSE THE DUKE AND MITCHAM WERE SO TALL AND HULKING!
Mitchum was rare indeed and for the most part never lost top billing as he was still getting that in the 1980s when most of his contemporaries were either gone, retired or playing small parts.
Fantastic I love all the old cowboys funny each cowboy manicured to perfection apart from Mitchum who I imagine looks like that in real life. No seriously he did a great Phillip Marlowe
@@sheiladavis6523 while technically correct you shouldn't underestimate how much influence Wayne had at this point in his career, he had a say in everything and veto power over a lot of the process that is part of the reason his movies especially the later ones had such a unique feel even with different directors
So true ! Such as the great double bill of two Westerns that were both released in 1966 : "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" and "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter".
@@peterweger6923 Both the bartender and the sheriff are Mitchums. The sheriff is played by Robert Mitchum, the co-lead, along with John Wayne, and the bartender was played by John Mitchum, Robert's real life brother, who was also an actor.
@Combe Martian Did you know that Jim Davis (playing Jason Robards's murderous ranch foreman; in the story, he was involved with, if not directly responsible for, killing at least 2 men) and James Caan (as a World War II veteran and rancher) also appeared together in a movie called "Comes a Horseman"?
One of the greatest scenes of someone being 'misjudged' and the character making them all pay for it in movie history, Robert Mitchum completely owned this scene. All of Jason's men look completely terrified, especially after that shot at the bartender. JP was ready to kill Jason until Thornton intervened.
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Chuck Connors and James Caan.....four legends. Lee Van Cleef, Yul Bruner and Charles Bronson would make it a magnificent seven.
The bartender at 3:28 - Robert Mitchum's brother John, and Dirty Harry's buddy and off and on partner 'Digeorgio' AKA "Fatso" in the early Dirty Harry films.
One of the most enjoyable john Wayne's western watched it so many times and every enjoyed it more then before ,it had everything great performances all the stars especially bob mitchum,vey funny and witty dialogues great onliners,and meaningful action sequences,
Robert Mitchum was super in this movie. Consider seeing him as Philip Marlowe in Farewell My Lovely. Of all the actors to play that role his was the most spot-on.
I agree 100 per cent ! Bob Mitchum was perfection as Philip Marlowe in the 1975 version of "Farewell My Lovely"....the first version had a different title: "Murder My Sweet".
If You Ever Wonder Why There Will Never Be Another Like This Film ,SIMPLY PUT This Kind of Talent And Time ,Long Gone And I Promise Anyone Who Has Never Seen This once you do it will become A Habit to watch it time and time Again A By Gone Era that I Truly Miss But Ever So Greatful I Saw in Films of This Period
I have got this movie DVD of John Wayne Robert Mitchum Christopher George and James Caan in El Dorado and I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
James Cann and Ed Asner would team up again for the movie ELF. Great movie Eldorado with a neat theme song and one of a kind paintings by Olaf Wieghorst - Swede Larsen (gunsmith). Eldorado song: Lyric by: John Gabriel, Music by: Nelson Riddle, Sung by: George Alexander, Accompanied by the Mellomen. Great movie and actors too!
Ever notice that when Arthur Hunnicut (Bull) is covering their advance on the church that his revolving rife has a chainfire? That's why your left hand goes on the tab under the triggerguard on those guns & not on the forestock (the wooden forestock is just for carrying it). He's behind a wagon & it's only onscreen for a split second. Watch the smoke & his face. He wasn't hurt by it. Great old character actor!
The rifle he carries looks like a colt but they were muzzleloaders he pulls a cartridge apart for gunpowder for the brew they make for mitchum remember
