Richie-67-485852 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

Leofwine_draca MCLINTOCK! is a familiar western for star John Wayne with a greater lightness of touch than usual, making this an out-and-out comedy at times. Once again the story mixes together ranchers, land owners, government corruption, and ruthless officials, with Wayne a steadying presence at the centre of the production as he attempts to hold everything together. The comedy is often broad and some of it is more than a little sexist by modern standards (check out the film's poster for the most crushing example of this) but there are some highlights here like the big brawl in the mud pit. Wayne gives more prominence to female characters than ever, with Maureen O'Hara matching him, Yvonne De Carlo cameoing, and Stefanie Powers looking young and beautiful.

AaronCapenBanner 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.

atlasmb Looking at the reviews on this site, it appears this film has many fans. I cannot understand why.First of all, the script has no charm. I loved Wayne and O'Hara in The Quiet Man, but here they are working with a script that more closely resembles a Road Runner cartoon (mug for the camera, hit someone over the head with the nearest object, then fall hilariously over your own feet!).Saying that the concept is based upon The Taming of the Shrew does not make it better.Everything that happens in the film is broadcast in advance. There are no surprises. Slapstick can be an art, but here there is no joy in it. I don't mean to belittle the opinions of others. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. But I found no genuine laughs in this movie. There are so many other worthy films out there.