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In 1903, the American writer Ridgely Torrence published his drama El Dorado: A Tragedy, with lines from Poe's poem as an epigraph. [9] In the 1966 John Wayne film El Dorado, James Caan recites parts of the poems at different times. Caan's character Mississippi recites all but the second stanza of the poem during the film. The character learned ...
El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown, the film is about a gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend who is a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to ...
Charles McColl Portis (December 28, 1933 – February 17, 2020) was an American author best known for his novels Norwood (1966) and the classic Western True Grit (1968). Both Norwood and True Grit were adapted as films, released in 1970 and 1969, respectively.
Feeling the Unthinkable: Essays on Social Justice; 2012; Amador Publishers, LLC ISBN 978-0-938513-44-5 "The Holiness of the Real": The Short Poetry of Kenneth Rexroth; 1st Edition 1966; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ISBN 978-0-8386-3651-0 (out of print). 2nd Edition 2014; Amador Publishers, LLC ISBN 978-0-938513-51-3
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Michele Carey (born Michele Lee Henson; February 26, 1942 – November 21, 2018) [1] [2] was an American actress who was best known for her role as Josephine "Joey" MacDonald in the 1966 Western film El Dorado. She appeared in movies and guest-starred in television series in the 1960s and 1970s.
While the epic The Way West with Kirk Douglas and Richard Widmark turned out to be a critical and commercial disappointment, [282] [283] El Dorado with John Wayne was a major success. [ 284 ] [ 285 ] The film, considered a quasi-remake of director Howard Hawks 's Rio Bravo (1959), [ 286 ] cast Mitchum as a drunken sheriff who, together with his ...
El Dorado (Spanish: [el doˈɾaðo], English: / ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /) is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions – before diving into a sacred lake ...