Thursday, December 04, 2014

El Dorado (1966)

Second viewing; first seen between 1983 and 1986.

A gunfighter helps a sheriff fight a rancher who threatens to dispossess another rancher in order to get his water supply.

So-so western, entertaining in a formulaic way. The quirky interplay among its characters and the overall deflated dramaticity reveal it could only have been written by a woman. That is no fault in itself, except its tricks just aren't successfully pulled off. By that time, audiences in search of more masculine emotions would turn to Italian productions.

Rating: 52 (unchanged)

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