El Dorado

Titolo originale: El Dorado
Regia: Howard Hawks |
Anno: 1966
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Western
Tag: sheriff | based on novel or book | texas | ranch | settler | liquor | revolver | two guns belt |
Cast: John Wayne | Robert Mitchum | James Caan | Charlene Holt | Paul Fix | Arthur Hunnicutt | Michele Carey | R.G. Armstrong | Ed Asner | Christopher George | Marina Ghane | John Gabriel | Robert Rothwell | Robert Donner | Adam Roarke | Victoria George | Jim Davis | Anne Newman Bacal | Diane Strom | Johnny Crawford | Olaf Wieghorst | Don Collier | Chuck Courtney | William Henry | Chuck Horne | John Mitchum | Chuck Roberson | Dean Smith |

Dal romanzo The Stars in Their Courses di Harry Brown. Uno sceriffo che s'è dato al bere per una pena d'amore deve far fronte a un allevatore tanto ricco quanto prepotente. Si fa dare una mano da un suo vecchio aiutante, da uno sbarbatello e da un arzillo vecchietto. Il penultimo film di Hawks – prima di Rio Lobo (1970) – è una variazione sui temi e i personaggi di Un dollaro d'onore (1959), basata su una sceneggiatura scritta da Leigh Brackett, sua collaboratrice fin dai tempi di Il grande sonno (1946). Non è né una ripetizione né una parodia, ma semmai un'elegia sui vecchi tempi, sorvegliata dall'angelo custode dell'ironia. Per Hawks anche gli eroi invecchiano, ma lo sanno e non nascondono le proprie infermità dell'anima e del corpo.

Frasi

Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Joe never was much good on t [...] D
Nelse McLeod: [referring to Harrah] Understand he [...] D
Mississippi: Want me to go with you? Bull Harris: [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Did we have a fight or somet [...] D
Mississippi: [while mixing some hangover cure] Let [...] D
Cole: Step down off that horse. Mississippi: You [...] D
Mississippi: [examining J.P.'s leg after he's been [...] D
Bull Harris: ...might have anyhow if I wasn't tryi [...] D
Maudie: You must like that man. Want me to tell yo [...] D
Cole: Sheriff, you... you alright? [Sees J.P's fa [...] D
Cole: [after the gunfight in the church] Where'd y [...] D
Joey: You going to keep sitting on my stomach? Mi [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Who are you? Mississippi: W [...] D
Cole: You were pretty good in there. Like old time [...] D
Cole: Either one of ya know a fast way to sober a [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: [Cole has just been treated [...] D
Mississippi: Always liked that poem too. Makes me [...] D
Milt: You've got a lot of faith in me, don't ya, N [...] D
Joey: [Standing over Cole's prone body, thinking h [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Didn't the last time you sho [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Bull, you go on shooting, we [...] D
Bull Harris: I reckon he's got a more interesting [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Up until now I thought you h [...] D
Cole: Don't you know better than to follow a man t [...] D
Mississippi: Well, where are we headed? Cole: To [...] D
Matt MacDonald: Well, look who's here. Kevin MacD [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: You know something Cole, I t [...] D
Kevin MacDonald: You always seem to be around, Tho [...] D
Cole: Did you get him? Mississippi: Who? Cole: T [...] D
Cole: What kept you? Mississippi: I was talking t [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Bull, I need you. Bull Harr [...] D
Bull Harris: [while mixing the hangover cure] Here [...] D
Mississippi: Always make you mad, don't I? Cole: [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: You thought it was pretty fu [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Why aren't you laughing now? [...] D
Cole: Pretty wise for a kid, Maudie. Maudie: I th [...] D
Doctor Donovan: You know these wounds were made by [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Well, wait a minute. Wait-wa [...] D
Cole: Where is Mississippi? Sheriff J. P. Harrah: [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: I guess you're supposed to t [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: He went out that door! Cole [...] D
Bull Harris: [about Cole and Mississippi going on [...] D
Cole: What was the idea of diving under those hors [...] D
Bart Jason: [Thornton is trying to distract McLeod [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: What the hell are you doin' [...] D
[Cole Thornton is turning down Bart Jason] Bart J [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: [bathing in the jail cell as [...] D
Cole: The girl was right; they're still up there. [...] D
Cole: Now just a minute, son. Mississippi: I... A [...] D
Bart Jason: You just going to sit there, Mcleod? [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Why are you here? Cole: Wai [...] D
Cole: When do you expect the United States Marshal [...] D
Bull Harris: Watch it, the way your hand's shaking [...] D
Kevin MacDonald: Are you backin' him up, Thornton? [...] D
[talking about Jason, who's in jail] Joey: Would [...] D
Bull Harris: He ain't put that stopper back in tha [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: It'll be a nice quiet town a [...] D
Kevin MacDonald: What do you expect us to do? Col [...] D
Mississippi: [Joey slaps Mississippi and he slaps [...] D
Mississippi: [about Joey] She was really gonna sho [...] D
Nelse McLeod: Can you use a gun? Mississippi: Wel [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Cole, they laughed at me. Ri [...] D
Cole: Aren't you gonna say anything? Maudie: Woul [...] D
Cole: You left a boy out there to do a man's job! D
Cole: Last time you took the front door and I took [...] D
Cole: J.P., why don't you settle down? Sheriff J. [...] D
Bull Harris: [Cole gets ready to punch J.P] Cole! [...] D
Kevin MacDonald: [questioning Cole Thornton who ha [...] D
Mississippi: I'm tryin' to thank you. Cole: I'm h [...] D
Mississippi: Well, I found out one thing. Cole: W [...] D
Mississippi: Are you bein' fair? Cole: How? Miss [...] D
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: Damn you, Bull! D