Tag: Marlon Brando
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Cinematic Coincidences: The Drunk, The Duke, and the Confusion Between ‘Rio Bravo’ and ‘El Dorado’
It’s important not to mix up the 1959 John Wayne film “Rio Bravo” with the 1966 John Wayne film “El Dorado.” As cinephile Chilli Palmer (John Travolta) points out in the 1995 film “Get Shorty,” Dean Martin played the drunk in “Rio Bravo,” while Robert Mitchum played the drunk in “El Dorado.” Basically the same…