McLintock! (1963)

I like my Westerns well more like the Wild West than a tamed West with one exception; If the story is a good one. Here, you don't need a story and as a comedy, it does what it wants when it wants it. Why? Because of all the star power in this movie. We have everyone playing their parts to the hilt perhaps over the top and then coming back to reality because there is only so much over-emphasizing you can do in acting unless you are making a Three Stooges Short. I like John Wayne and his work. I had trouble adjusting to him playing this comedy role but I still managed to enjoy his persona and mannerisms which makes him what he is. Western life was often hard, brutal, unfair and consisted of survival behaviors allowing settlers to live from season to season. There were no guarantees and often one had to learn to go with the flow or be run over. Many turned back and gave up after year two. One good storm or one good mistake would do it. In this movie, nothing can wrong for anyone who is on the screen. Everything has been tamed, watered down and reduced to story telling not actual show and tell. So they create mayhem, mishaps, human drama, love interests, the town drunk, saloon girls, whiskey, horse, cows and Indians sort of like throwing them all together but done for laughs sake. I guess I am used to having my Westerns straight-up and down-home. Please don't let me discourage anyone from watching because as comedy goes, they did set it up for laughs and this was a successful film for its day. Good movie to snack with plus a tasty drink and enjoy all these acting pros well-known and otherwise as they deliver us this story for our entertainment

Dull and irritating.Really just a platform for John Wayne (as GW McLintock) to strut around, showing that he's the boss. The plot and dialogue could not have been tailored more to Wayne's ego than if he had written it himself.Everything else seems secondary, and hammy. There is a sub-plot about the rights and heritage of Native Americans, but it is superficial and patronizing. There is also an initial attempt at, at last, having a strong female character, the equal of John Wayne. This theme, with Maureen O'Hara as Mclinkock's wife, seemed like it had potential but the whole interaction between McLintock and his wife seemed contrived, hammy and implausible. Ultimately, any thoughts that we might see a movie where a woman has equal standing to a John Wayne character is destroyed in the final few scenes.So nothing going for this movie. Even the beautiful and vivacious Maureen O'Hara can't save it.

John Wayne stars as George Washington McLintock, a wealthy but benevolent cattle baron who has to deal with an increasing number of homesteaders who have been given land grants by the government to farm, which he is very skeptical about, but cannot change. He even hires one of them, an ambitious young man(played by his son Patrick Wayne) along with his mother and sister. They will come to be close to him after his daughter Becky(played by Stefanie Powers) comes to visit from college, along with his estranged wife Katherine Gilhooley McLintock(played by frequent costar Maureen Ohara). He secretly is still in love with her, and will try most earnestly to win her back, despite her stubborn defiance.Not particularly funny, and most definitely overlong romp doesn't seem to have much point at all, though it is amiable enough I suppose, with a protracted and inevitable conclusion.

George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) is a rich cattle baron. He finds he's inundated by settlers on unsuitable soil. The Indians are being pushed out. His daughter Becky is coming back, but his loud angry wife Katherine surprises him returning.This is a comedy that's inspired by Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew". It's definitely an old fashion western comedy. And I don't know if much of it is truly funny. I never found "Taming of the Shrew" that funny. Basically we're supposed to laugh at an opinionated woman. And the play ends when the shrew is tamed. It's kind of old fashion. It's kind of John Wayne. So it's perfectly understandable that they made it into an old fashion John Wayne western.