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Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin is in the other one. El Dorado and Rio Bravo, I think.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 4:56:07 pm)

Decoy:
That was me. Yeah.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 4:56:19 pm)

Decoy:
I like how Robert Mitchum and Dean Martin play the drunken sherriff.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 4:57:14 pm)

Chewing Wax:
El Dorado
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 4:57:27 pm)

Chewing Wax:
I never seen neither of them.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 4:58:18 pm)

Detlef Sping:
El Dorado is basically a remake of 1959's Rio Bravo with Robert Mitchum playing the Dean Martin Role and
James Caan playing the Rick Nelson role as a young gunman. The Trio are joined by Mitchums deputy "Lavern" in trying to
protect a family of dancers from an evil land baron trying to run them off their land.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 4:58:19 pm)

Detlef Sping:
The Big Ragu's folks.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 4:59:10 pm)

Decoy:
Ok. My mother in law is coming in in the 5:18 Empire. Later kids.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:00:51 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Say hi to her for me.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:01:28 pm)

Detlef Sping:
Ed Asner plays the evil land baron with Christopher Lloyd as his hired gunslinger Jim, who wants to challenge the older Wayne to see who is faster on the draw.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:01:45 pm)

Detlef Sping:
Auf Decoy.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:02:00 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Are you making this up?
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:02:20 pm)

Detlef Sping:
parts.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:02:53 pm)

Detlef Sping:
Tiny inconsequential parts
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:03:53 pm)

Detlef Sping:
But that's the basic plot.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:04:15 pm)

Chewing Wax:
John Wayne's real name was Marion Michael Morrison. I never knew that.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:05:08 pm)

Detlef Sping:
I thought there was a Molly in there somewhere too.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:05:49 pm)

Detlef Sping:
Maybe I'm thinking of Ringwald.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:06:23 pm)

Detlef Sping:
John Ringwald.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:06:47 pm)

Chewing Wax:
That's insane
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:07:49 pm)

Detlef Sping:
The last thing he ate was a steak.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:07:55 pm)

Detlef Sping:
It's true he was leaving the hospital after his surgery, and he said to the reporters he was going home and having a thick steak, the next day he was dead, pretty much.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:09:40 pm)

Detlef Sping:
I wonder what cut it was. probably a T-Bone.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:10:41 pm)

Detlef Sping:
he could have had a desert too I guess. I'd have had a strawberry short cake. What a way to go. Auf.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:13:14 pm)

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El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks's greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed audience baiting picture, made near the end of Hawks's marvelous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne's old pal, Punchy, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender. James Caan, in one of his first sizable roles, plays a kid who can't shoot straight and wears a funny floral straw hat (every character in the movie makes fun of this flowered hat). As the plot moves along, it begins to resemble Rio Bravo rather closely ("I steal from myself all the time," Hawks was fond of admitting). But in El Dorado the heroes are a bit thinner and ill, their powers a bit weaker; at the end Wayne must revert to a bit of subterfuge in order to get the drop on the steely gunslinger (ice-cold Christopher Lloyd) he needs to put down. As relaxed as the movie is, Hawks and Wayne and company are in good spirits, with plenty of "broad" humor and easy camaraderie both on display, and off. Hawks and Wayne would make just one more film, the disappointing The Littlest Rio Lobo, before ending their fruitful.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:29:34 pm)

(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:41:17 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Heh. She's drinking.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 5:47:11 pm)

Decoy:
With her puppy...HEH!
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 6:11:55 pm)

Decoy:
I do admire that Howard Hawkes. Always thought he was a master of the visual narrative. Queenie should know his work. Or not.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 6:14:55 pm)

Decoy:
White Russian.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 8:28:55 pm)

Myk Murphy:
my dad bears a striking resemblance to robert mitchum. in some photos, especially. and he can hold his booze much better than any of mitchum's characters.
(Wed Mar 17, 2004 - 8:31:12 pm)

theo:
Yer such a barell head..
(Thu Mar 18, 2004 - 2:56:37 am)

theo:
(sp)barrel
(Thu Mar 18, 2004 - 2:59:04 am)