{"id":17770,"date":"2025-08-24T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17770"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:01:11","slug":"el-dorado-1966-howard-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17770","title":{"rendered":"El Dorado (1966, Howard Hawks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glowing restoration of a classic western &#8211; you wouldn&#8217;t know it&#8217;s the mid-1960s except for some casting failures, and the occasional <em>Pink Panther<\/em>-ass music.  John Wayne is a Yojimbo-type gunman, taking the side of the MacDonald family he&#8217;s supposed to have been hired to kill, Mitchum the hopelessly drunk sheriff who needs to sober up before the big showdown.  Michele Carey is very good as the pissed-off McD girl who shoots Wayne in the spine early on &#8211; too bad her career never rose past couple-episode appearances on big TV shows.  Pre-<em>Godfather<\/em> James Caan and Wayne&#8217;s girl Charlene Holt both suck, however.  There&#8217;s gotta be a grizzled deputy &#8211; in this case Arthur Hunnicutt, returning from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7636\">The Big Sky<\/a><\/em>.  Baddies include Ed &#8220;<em>Up<\/em>&#8221; Asner as Black Bart and Scarface McCloud (Chris George of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5041\">City of the Living Dead<\/a><\/em> and <em>Pieces<\/em>) as the hired gun who takes the assassination job offered to Wayne.  And gunsmith &#8220;Swede&#8221; is a Swede (played by a Dane).<\/p>\n<p><em>Wayne and his girl:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/dorado1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Our heroes:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/dorado2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glowing restoration of a classic western &#8211; you wouldn&#8217;t know it&#8217;s the mid-1960s except for some casting failures, and the occasional Pink Panther-ass music. John Wayne is a Yojimbo-type gunman, taking the side of the MacDonald family he&#8217;s supposed to have been hired to kill, Mitchum the hopelessly drunk sheriff who needs to sober up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,103,1654,791,618,105],"class_list":["post-17770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-howard-hawks","tag-james-caan","tag-john-wayne","tag-robert-mitchum","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17826,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17770\/revisions\/17826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}