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McLintock!

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Aging rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne), a wealthy self-made man, is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife, who left him two years previously, suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in her husband -- she wants custody of their daughter.
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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Disappointing. Rated: 2.5/4 May 30, 2021 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews A fairly interminable Western... Rated: 1/4 Jul 31, 2015 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com A popular Western comedy that makes explicit allusions to John Wayne's real-life politics Rated: B- Mar 4, 2011 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Rated: 2.5/5 Oct 6, 2005 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The legendary star's most popular and successful films of the '60s. Rated: B- Aug 21, 2005 Full Review Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press It's conventional, it's cliche-ridden, but it's fun. Nov 20, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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Nick E A serviceable western. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/02/25 Full Review Blu B It's completely aimless nonsense and mindless and yet it's charming, fun, really funny, and well done. This reminds me of smething like Home Alone, Lethal Weapon 2, or Airplane where the script on paper should not work at all and devolve into a complete disaster or mess at times. It's a weird mixture of a romcom, western, and comedy in a very barebones plot about a Western Rancher who is the bigshot in town and stuff just happens. People fall in love, get spanked, indian raids happen, and tons of fist fights. It just goes into chaos at imes. Complete chaos and yet it works. This isn't meant to be taken serious, it's light hearted the entire way but also makes sense. The biggest thing here is the humor is really good actually with lots and lots of slapstick that's very well done. It suprised me how much I laughed and how well done the humor was. If that didn't work as well as it did this would collapse big time. The acting is really good and charming also. Everyone is having lots of fun and it shows on screen. The editing is solid enough too setting up the humor well but also keeping the sotry just on the rails enough. Everything else is really well done and great direction. Imagine the ending fight of the Quiet Man but it's half the movie almost. It's light hearted stupid mindless fun that isn't meant to be taken seriously. That being said, I don't know if this is for everyone. If your a Western fan, fan of the director, any actors in this, or dumb fun comedies but can get overlook the spanking scenes in the name of good fun give this a shot. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/21/25 Full Review Tony O It's different from most John Wayne movies. Almost like a RomCom. Fun and amusing. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/25 Full Review robert d Would've been great on Broadway Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/27/24 Full Review Blobbo X Blobbo entertained by sprawling, big money movie. Whole Blob family watch together, no blushing, plenty chuckles. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/16/24 Full Review Bobby C Fun and funny classic cowboy movie. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Aging rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne), a wealthy self-made man, is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife, who left him two years previously, suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in her husband -- she wants custody of their daughter.
Director
Andrew V. McLaglen
Producer
Michael Wayne
Screenwriter
James Edward Grant
Distributor
United Artists
Production Co
United Artists, Polyphony Digital, Batjac Productions
Genre
Western, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 13, 1963, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 15, 2011
Runtime
2h 7m
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