John Wayne El Dorado Dvd
Posted in Posters on 07/20/2009 11:52 pm by admin
RIO BRAVO TRAILER 1959 JOHN WAYNE
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El Dorado [VHS] $1.99 El Dorado doesn’t quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks’s greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed 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, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender… |
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El Dorado $3.70 Howard Hawks successfully reworks his “Rio Bravo” with John Wayne as a gunslinger who returns to El Dorado, which he visited a year before and found an ugly range war brewing pitting nasty land baron Ed Asner against a family headed by R.G. Armstrong. Now, Wayne is joined by new pal James Caan to stop Asner and help drunken lawman Robert Mitchum keep peace. Charlene Holt, Michele Carey, and Christ… |
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El Dorado (Paramount Centennial Collection) $12.70 El Dorado doesn’t quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks’s greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed 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, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender… |
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True Grit [Blu-ray] $9.50 A wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line “Ride, boldly ride” being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into “Ride, baldy, ride.” Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several inches of girth to play cantankerous territorial marshal Rooster Cogburn. Critics belatedly noticed that he could be a marvelously entertaining… |