El Dorado
“It's the big one with the big two!”
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Genres
Western, Drama
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How El Dorado performed
Budget
$4.7M
Worldwide Gross
$6.0M
Gross Profit
$1.3M
Return
1.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~50/50, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Western) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Cole Thornton
John Wayne
Cole Thornton
Sheriff J.P. Harrah
Robert Mitchum
Sheriff J.P. Harrah
Mississippi
James Caan
Mississippi
Maudie
Charlene Holt
Maudie
Dr. Miller
Paul Fix
Dr. Miller
Bull Harris
Arthur Hunnicutt
Bull Harris
Josephine (Joey) MacDonald
Michele Carey
Josephine (Joey) MacDonald
Kevin MacDonald
R.G. Armstrong
Kevin MacDonald
Bart Jason
Ed Asner
Bart Jason
Nelse McLeod
Christopher George
Nelse McLeod
Maria
Marina Ghane
Maria
Pedro
John Gabriel
Pedro
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