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El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown, the film is about a gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend who is a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to ...
But Hawks liked Caan and cast him in his next film, El Dorado, playing Alan Bourdillion Traherne, a.k.a. Mississippi, in support of John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. [31] He had the starring role in Robert Altman 's second feature film, Countdown (1967) [ 32 ] and was second billed in the Curtis Harrington thriller Games (1967). [ 33 ]
In the 1966 John Wayne film El Dorado, James Caan recites parts of the poems at different times. Caan's character Mississippi recites all but the second stanza of the poem during the film. The character learned the poem from a mentor, Johnny Diamond, whose death he avenged.
From 'El Dorado' to 'Elf' — the very best of the late, great 'Godfather' star
Howard Hawks gave Caan his first leading role in the car racing drama Red Line 7000 (1965), then cast him again alongside John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in the 1966 Western El Dorado.
James Caan, the brawny star who played Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and a rough-and-tumble athlete in Rollerball but had the self-assurance to showcase a sensitive side during his long career ...
Michele Carey (born Michele Lee Henson; February 26, 1942 – November 21, 2018) [1] [2] was an American actress who was best known for her role as Josephine "Joey" MacDonald in the 1966 Western film El Dorado.
American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (1930), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process ...