Summary

In 1966, John Wayne visited Vietnam and began formulating one of his biggest on-screen blunders, "The Green Berets." Before he could get around to making the one John Wayne film that Roger Ebert called "cruel and dishonest," however, he had another couple Westerns to get through. "El Dorado" was the first. It premiered in the United States in June 1967, exactly one year after Wayne made the rounds in IndoChina.

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