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John Wayne's El Dorado featured Robert Mitchum making a big mistake that he solved with Duke and director Howard Hawks by incorporating it into the movie's final scenes.
EL DORADO saw Robert Mitchum make a big mistake that he solved with John Wayne and director Howard Hawks by incorporating it into the movie's final scenes.
Celebrated actor Robert Mitchum only received one Oscar nomination in his career despite being a legendary cinematic figure in multiple genres.
Yet “El Dorado,” with all this pain at its center, remains a lively, funny, engaging film, no small part of that comedy coming from Mitchum. All great movie actors know how to live a scene ...
Robert Mitchum, whose sleepy-eyed machismo and “what the hell” veneer concealed one of the most remarkable acting talents of the Hollywood studio star system, died in his sleep Tuesday … ...
Robert Mitchum westerns? The quintessential film noir actor, whose distinctly urban air of seductive menace galvanized films such as “Out of the Past,” riding hell bent for leather on some ...
James Caan starred opposite John Wayne in the 1966 Western El Dorado, and he had a fiery confrontation with the screen icon that had to be broken up by Robert Mitchum ...
Legendary producer-director Howard Hawks teams up with two legendary stars, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, in a classic Western drama.
Gun fighter John Wayne and sheriff Robert Mitchum take on ruthless cattle baron Ed Asner in Howard Hawks' outstanding Western. James Caan also stars.… ...
Mitchum’s walk is as distinctive in its way as John Wayne’s. Having fun with this, Howard Hawks shot them moseying along on crutches at the end of “El Dorado” (1967).
Of his performance in 1968’s “El Dorado,” The Times’ inimitable Kevin Thomas wrote: “Mitchum delivered one of the loveliest hangover sequences on record.” ...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced their official Retrospective for the 55th New York Film Festival: a wide-ranging 24-film centenary tribute to the great Robert Mitchum. Over the ...