McLintock! is the kind of film that audiences preferred John Wayne in, light weight entertainments with out all the heavy handed jingoist patriotism that the Duke could inflict on his audiences at times. Wayne sometimes had trouble figuring that out but McLintock! is a painless time killer.
The film is a who's who of early 60's actors with people like Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne de Carlo, Stefanie Powers, Jack Kruschen, Chill Wills, Jerry Van Dyke, Edgar Buchanan, Bruce Cabot, Perry Lopez, Michael Pate, Strother Martin, Leo Gordon, Hank Worden and Bob Steele. All these actors showed up in film after film during the 1960's.
McClintock! is an odd film in some ways. For a film from the conservative Wayne, it has an interesting liberal viewpoint about the exploitation of the native American. The film also has yet another slapstick mud fight similar to the one in North to Alaska. In fact the whole idea of John Wayne in a comedy is odd to begin with.
A film where men are men and women better do what they're told and like it damnit!
A film where men are men and women better do what they're told and like it damnit!
127 overlong minutes, written by one of Wayne's cronies, James Edward Grant.
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