History Main / ElDorado

* AfterActionPatchUp: After J.P. gets shot in the leg by one of [=MacLeod=]'s men, he gets tended to by Dr. Donovan the new town doctor. Miller, the old one calls him over for his expertise to examine Cole, who still has a bullet in his back and is causing him to have painful spasms and temporary paralysis of his right arm. Donovan tells him it requires an operation before the paralysis becomes permanent. Cole promises he'll have one after the matter with [=MacLeod=] is settled.

* ICanStillFight: Both Cole and J.P. suffer from injuries by the final act. Cole's right arm is paralyzed from the bullet against his spine and he's too busy to have an operation to remove it. J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite these limitations they come up with a plan to rescue Saul [=MacDonald=] from [=McLeod=] and Jason.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted in that Joey shoots Cole in the back and he recovers, but the bullet is lodged against his spine, which occasionally causes him painful spasms and his right arm to temporarily go numb. By the denouement the numbness lasts too long and he has too fight with only one good arm.

* ICanStillFight: Both Cole and J.P. suffer from injuries by the final act. Cole's right arm is paralyzed from the bullet against his spine and he's too busy to have an operation to remove it. J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite these limitations they come up with a plan to rescue Saul [=MacDonald=] from [=McLeod=] and Jason.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted in that Joey shoots Cole in the back and he recovers, but the bullet is lodged against his spine, which occasionally causes him painful spasms and his right arm to temporarily go numb.

* ICanStillFight: Both Cole and J.P. suffer from injuries by the final act. Cole's right arm is paralyzed from the bullet against his spine and he's too busy to have an operation to remove it. J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite this they attempt to rescue Saul [=MacDonald=] from [=McLeod=] and Jason.

* ICanStillFight: Both Cole and J.P. suffer from injuries by the final act. Cole's right arm is paralyzed and he's too busy with [=MacLeod=] to have the bullet in his spine causing it to be removed surgically. J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite this they attempt to rescue Saul [=MacDonald=] from [=McLeod=] and Jason.

* ICanStillFight: Both Cole and J.P. suffer from injuries by the final act. Cole's right arm is paralyzed and he's too busy with [=MacLeod=} to have the bullet in his spine causing it to be removed surgically. J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite this they attempt to rescue Saul [=MacDonald=] from [=McLeod=] and Jason.

* ICanStillFight: Both Cole and J.P. suffer from injuries by the final act. Cole's right arm is paralyzed and he's too busy to have the bullet in his spine causing it to be removed surgically. J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite this they attempt to rescue Saul [=MacDonald=] from [=McLeod=] and Jason.

* ICanStillFight: Both Cole and J.P. suffer from injuries by the final act. The bullet in Cole's back has paralyzed his whole right side and he's too busy to have it removed by the doctor. J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite this they attempt to rescue Saul [=MacDonald=] from [=McLeod=] and Jason.

* ICanStillFight: Both Cole and J.P. suffer from injuries by the final act. The bullet in Cole's back has paralyzed his whole right side and he's too busy to have it removed. J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite this they attempt to rescue Saul [=MacDonald=] from [=McLeod=] and Jason.

* ICanStillFight: Both Cole and J.P. suffer from injuries by the final act. The bullet in Cole's back has paralyzed his whole right side and he's too busy to have it removed. J.P. was shot in the leg and needs crutches. Despite this they attempt to rescue Saul MacDonald from [=McLeod=] and Jason.

* PosthumousCharacter: Johnny Diamond, an old riverboat gambler who raised Mississippi and was killed during a card game a few years before the story take place. We learn a lot about him from Mississippi who wears his funny top hat as a tribute.

* GenreBlind: Mississippi

'''El Dorado''' is a classic 1966 [[TheWestern Western]] movie directed by Howard Hawks, written by Leigh Bracket based on the novel ''The Stars in Their Courses'' by Harry Brown, starring JohnWayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan.

* GirlsWithGuns: Joey [=MacDonald=] and her sister-in-law.

* {{Fauxreigner}}: Mississippi doing a SoBadItsAwful impression of a ChineseLaunderer to sneak up on a thug.

* {{LivingMacGuffin}} and {{HostageforMacGuffin}}: The villains capture Cole Thornton and offer to trade him for Bart Jason, who is in jail awaiting trial for murder.

* {{LivingMacGuffin}} and {{HostageforMacGuffin}} The villains capture Cole Thornton and offer to trade him for Bart Jason, who is in jail awaiting trial for murder.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Nelse [=McLeod=] is a surprisingly likeable character and in some ways a more honorable fighter than Cole Thornton.

* RecycledScript: Many situations and plot elements are very similar to those of the previous Hawks/Brackett/Wayne western, ''RioBravo'', and to those of the next and last one, ''Rio Lobo''. Some elements are inverted, e.g. instead of the hyper-competent YoungGun of ''Rio Bravo'' you had a youngster who is useless with firearms. The scene in which Thornton [[spoiler: pushes one of [=McLeod's=] mooks through a door to be shot by his own men]] echoes a similar one from the first Hawks/Brackett collaboration, ''TheBigSleep''. There also had been a scene similar to the one where Mississippi throws himself in front to the bad guys' horses that was cut from the final version of ''Rio Bravo'', so to do it here, Howard Hawks bought the rights back from Warner.

* TheCombatPragmatist: Cole Thornton.

* TimeSkip: The movie jumps six months ahead after the first act.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: [=MccLeod=] has a scar over an injured eye.