Rio Bravo and El Dorado are equally cherishable. Irrelavant plot, of course, but the the sheer cheer chemistry of watching great players chime with, almost, musical artistry is a wholesome treat. Mitchum forever...
of course in all fairness, Mitch technique in this scene was so right on the peg since undoubtedly he was drawing from a veritable lifetime of gut wrenching hangovers, but every expression is so right, every movement. It also did not hurt that he just happened to be one of the best actors to ever step foot in front of a 35 mm lens. Very subtle performances his, so shaded, picked your pocket with them and you never knew till he was long gone.
Great acting by Robert Mitchum! Elmer the guy with the bar splinters after Robert Mitchum fires his rifle was John Mitchum - Robert Mitchum's younger brother. I TOLD YOU ELMER GET AWAY FROM THAT GUN! Also, laughing boy was Jim Davis who played J.R. & Bobby's father on the TV series Dallas.
Robert Mitchum..... one of Hollywood’s all time bad asses. Mitchum’s brother is the bar tender and Jason’s forman is Jim Davis who later played Jock Ewing on Dallas.
There could’ve been an entire movie about mitchems character alone right here. My favorite character. A failure who pulls himself out of the gutter and back to the top again by the scruff of his own neck. Real tough bastard right there. One could say he has.......true grit😏
I've seen this so many times I think I know the entire script by heart! "Why aren't you laughing now!?...(My favorite question - "why?! ' 'Duh -uh-uh...' No answer.) Let me hear you laugh!!" Tough as nails - those are the only words I have to describe the sheriff in this scene! I can't find any other words for him!
Probably my favorite movie of all time, and this is probably my favorite scene of all time! (Mississipi entering the bar is probably my second favorite). Robert Mitchem is a total badass!
I SAID STEP AWAY FROM THAT GUN! PWNED! If you're a bad guy and the wimpiest member of the posse coming to kick your ass is James Caan, and John Wayne is only the second baddest dude in the bunch, you might as well quit now.
RM scared the living starch out of me in this scene. Turned from juiced up waste of time into gun totin' psychopath ready to erase everybody within sight.
He was also in three Dirty Harry films. Mitchum was one of only four actors to appear in more than one film in this series (the others being Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino and Albert Popwell), and with Eastwood and Guardino, he was one of only three actors to play the same character in each appearance. His character was killed in the third film, The Enforcer.
Robert Mitchum was always one of my favorite actors....I understand he got "blackballed" by Hollywood for some reason for a number of years...don't remember the whole story but he lost out on some of his best acting years.
@MisterMasterShafter1 They are but Each one of the 3 Rio Bravo El Dorado, Rio Lobo were all different books. I guess everyone wrote westerns the same way back in the day. But it is still lovely to watch all of em!
How about the handful of splinters the bartender got? Ouch! That ain't nothing compared to the rifle whippin' old Jason got. Now THAT'S gonna leave a mark !
The movie was released in theaters in 1966. The movie was on network TV probably 2 years after it's theater run. Then it finally went to Home Video, when Paramount realized that people would buy these movies to watch in their new VCRs. Then there was the Digital Video Revolution! The introduction of DVDs. And Blu-Ray DVDs after that. And now, you can 'stream' classic movies, like "El Dorado", Hatari, and quite a few others from digital video services like CBS All Access, (now called, Paramount+), Netflix, Hulu, and others.
0:47 "Mississippi, keep that gun pointed right at this table. Both barrels." On second thought, point one barrel at this table and one at the piano there.
"do you really think that a man like john Wayne if he was still alive would give a fuck about your worthless opinion?" About as much of a fuck as I give about your opinion Jack.
One of a kind Paintings and Song by: Paintings by: Olaf Wieghorst who played: ... Swede Larsen (gunsmith) and Eldorado song: Lyric by: John Gabriel, Music by: Nelson Riddle, Sung by: George Alexander, Accompanied by the Mellomen. Great movie and actors too!
if anyone can name another actor on the planet, not just Hollywood who could have carried off this scene better, please let me know. Mitchum was quite irrreplaceable.And they wonder why movies are so bad now. Its the void of all the Mitch wannabes.
The Western is the greatest American film genre -- including the ones made in Italy. Did you know that the entire period of the Wild West basically happened between 1869 and 1900? Before 1869 the transcontinental railroad wasn't complete yet and by 1900 the Western territories had become States (except Arizona and New Mexico became States in 1912) and weren't quite as wild anymore.
@Hal McAdams Mitchum was not method. There is a famous scene with him and Kirk Douglas, who was method, showing the difference. Mitchum was a natural actor who also had the ability to learn a script after reading it once. He really didn't understand how he got paid for something that was so easy for him.
Rio Bravo and El Dorado are 2 different movies which starred John Wayne in both films but different supporting characters, this is El Dorado with Robert Mitchum which I thought was just as good as Rio Bravo myself
