El Dorado (1966)
Actors:
Arthur Hunnicutt (actor),
Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (actor),
Riley Hill (actor),
James Caan (actor),
Robert 'Buzz' Henry (actor),
William Henry (actor),
R.G. Armstrong (actor),
Danny Borzage (actor),
Jim Davis (actor),
Robert Donner (actor),
Paul Fix (actor),
Edward Asner (actor),
Nacho Galindo (actor),
Chuck Courtney (actor),
John Mitchum (actor),
Plot: Hired gunman Cole Thornton turns down a job with Bart Jason as it would mean having to fight an old sheriff friend. Some months later he finds out the lawman is on the bottle and a top gunfighter is heading his way to help Jason. Along with young Mississippi, handy with a knife and now armed with a diabolical shotgun, Cole returns to help.
Keywords: alcoholic, alcoholism, ambush, bar-fight, bar-shootout, based-on-novel, blood, blood-splatter, bow-and-arrow, chase
Genres:
Western,
Taglines: It's The Big One With The Big Two! They were friends. They were enemies. A passerby could not tell which was who. This was the seething sultry Old Southwest. Where loyalties and labels shifted with the sands, the winking of an eye, the wavering of a gun!
Quotes:
[Cole Thornton is turning down Bart Jason]::Bart Jason: Since when did hired guns get choosy? You're paid to take...::Cole: I'm paid to risk my neck. I'll decide where and when I'll do it. This isn't it.::Bart Jason: Ya know, Thornton, I got an idea you just don't want to go up against Sheriff J.P. Harrah.::Cole: You know, you're just about right?::Bart Jason: You think he's that good?::Cole: I tell ya he's that good.
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: What the hell are you doin' here?::Cole: I'm lookin' at a tin star with a... drunk pinned on it.
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: He went out that door!::Cole: Well you oughta know! You missed him!
Milt: You've got a lot of faith in me, don't ya, Nelse?::Nelse McLeod: Faith can move mountains, Milt. But it can't beat a faster draw. There's only three men I know with his kind of speed. One's dead. The other's me. And the third is Cole Thornton.::Cole: There's a fourth.::Nelse McLeod: Which one are you?::Cole: I'm Thornton.::[Milt withdraws]::Nelse McLeod: Aren't you glad you didn't try, Milt? Pick up your guns, both of you, real easy.::Cole: Like he said, real easy.
Cole: Next time you shoot somebody, don't go near 'em till you're... sure they're dead!
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Well, wait a minute, wait, wait for me!::Cole: Why?
Nelse McLeod: Can you use a gun?::Mississippi: Well, if I could I'd be using one. Good evening.::Cole: Just minute, Mississippi.::Mississippi: Would you mind telling me why you have such a great passion for my company?
Cole: Did you get him?::Mississippi: Who?::Cole: The fella that ran outta the church!::Mississippi: Well, yes and no.::Cole: Yes and no? Did you or didn't you?::Mississippi: I hit the sign, and the sign hit him.::Cole: Well, that's great.::Mississippi: He was limping when he left!::Cole: He was limping when he got here!
Mississippi: Always liked that poem too. Makes me wanna...::Cole: Ride, boldly ride? Well it don't work out that way.::Mississippi: I'm learnin' that.
Mississippi: [examining J.P.'s leg after he's been shot] I gotta cut this pant leg.::Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Well, go ahead and cut it! Have you got a kni...::[Mississippi pulls out his knife from its hiding place on his back]::Sheriff J. P. Harrah: A knife? Uh, I suppose I've asked this before, but just who?::[looks at Cole instead]::Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Who is he?::Cole: Tell him your name, Mississippi.::Mississippi: [sighs and looks up] Alan Bourdillion Trehearne.::Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Well, no wonder he carries a knife.