El Dorado

In Robert Aldrich's "El Dorado" (1966), gun-for-hire Cole Thornton, played by Robert Mitchum, reunites with his friend Sheriff J.P. Harrah to assist a beleaguered rancher and his kin in their water rights dispute against a nefarious rival. Alongside a fighter and a gambler, Mitchum navigates a moral and physical gauntlet, where the parched plains of the American West underscore the film's tension between justice and survival.