Legendary producer-director Howard Hawks teams with two equally legendary stars John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in this classic Western drama. Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlesslybattles the dark side of the wild West ruthless cattle barons and crooked businessmen. The Duke gives an equally adept performance as the sheriffs old friend who knows his way around a gunfight. Filled with brawling actionand humour El Dorado delivers the goods.

Katie Elder bore four sons. The day she is buried they all return home to Clearwater Texas to pay their last respects. John Wayne is the eldest and toughest son the gunslinger. Tom (Dean Martin) is good with a deck of cards and good with a gun when he has to be. Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one - nobody ever called him yellow... twice. Bud (Michael Anderson Jr.) is the youngest. Any hope for respectability lies with him. Directed by Henry Hathaway (True Grit) an acknowledged master of the western the story has a dual theme; not only is this a he-mans story but it is also a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder movingly portrayed from beginning to conclusion.

WAR OF THE WILDCATS: Cathy Allen am attractive and independent schoolteacher is obliged to leave her town and travel to Oklahoma after writing a controversial book. There she meets Jim Gardner a prosperous oil operator and Dan Somers an earnest and sincere cowboy who is determined to protect the interests of the Indians who own the rich oil lands. There follows a fierce battle of wills between Gardner and Somers who soon become enemies as they compete for control of the oil-fields and also for the affections of Cathy. War of the Wildcats is a dynamic and absorbing drama which features a typically strong and measured performance from The Duke.IN OLD CALIFORNIA: John Wayne stars as Tom Craig a Boston pharmacist who journeys to the West in the days of the great Gold Rush. Soon after his arrival in Sacramento Craig meets Britt Dawson an unscrupulous politician and his beautiful fiancee Lacey Miller a dancehall singer. Tom manages to successfully organise the ranchers in a revolt against Dawson's between the townspeople (led by Tom) and Dawson's ruthless army of henchmen. A lesser known John Wayne gem In Old California is a hugely enjoyable action-packed film.