McLintock!
McLintock! is a 1963 American-made film, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.
Cattle baron George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) is living the single life on his ranch. He is estranged from his snobbish wife, Katherine (Maureen O'Hara), who left him two years before. McLintock hires young Devlin Warren as a hand and his beautiful mother, Louise Warren, as his cook and welcomes their family into his home. He also butts heads with Matt Douglas, a sleazy bureaucrat who is looking to discredit McLintock, and remove the local Indians. Sparks begin to fly as an unexpected turn of events results in brawls, gunfire, an Indian attack... and the return of Mrs. McLintock, who wants custody over their daughter Becky (coming home from college) and a divorce from G.W.
- Badass Family: The McLintock family.
- Braids, Beads, and Buckskins
- Camp Cook: Louise Warren, but she's a really good cook.
- Cattle Baron: McLintock; he started out as a rancher and worked long and hard so his wife and daughter would prosper.
- Chinese Shop Owner: Ching, until he retires and is made "part of the family" by McLintock so he won't work himself too hard.
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Ching: Crummy family, crummy family! |
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- Determined Homesteader's Wife: Katie started out as this, then she became a stuffy Rich Bitch.
- Fiery Redhead: Maureen O'Hara's character, Katherine; her behavior certainly fits that red hair.
- Hilarious in Hindsight 11 years before McLintock!, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara starred in another film with many similarities to McLintock!: The Quiet Man. Both films are very similar to one another, with John and Maureen playing a couple with a strained marriage, and both films end with John's character chasing/dragging Maureen's character around a town while the rest of the citizens of said towns follow and cheer him on in a hilarious manner. Furthermore, in The Quiet Man, as John is dragging Maureen, an old woman gives him a stick "with which to spank the lady" with, if you've seen both films you know what this ties to.
- Injun Country: Actually the Indians were fighting to stay in one particular part of the country; unfortunately, Cuthbert H. Humphrey had other ideas.
- Irony: McLintock and the Comanche chief were once heroic figures on opposing sides in wars gone by and are now living in an age where the West is leaving them both behind.
- Rule of Funny: The fight scene near the mud-hole, everyone that could fall in... did.
- The Savage Indian: Lampshaded. It is long past the days when real mayhem was done in the West by either Whites or Indians. And the Indians are just doing the equiv of a panty raid. But they pull out all the stops to reinforce the stereotype and frighten the annoying folk they want to frighten.
- Southern Gentleman: Ol' Douglas Jr. tries to be this, but mostly comes across as a hapless geek.
- Tar and Feathers Happens to several characters, but the most literal example is with Katie during the finale, except it was Molasses instead of tar to go with the feathers.
- The Wild West A ranch boss who prides a record of tossing a hat on a wind dial atop his house. His wife that terrifies him and the entire town with how mean she is. Indians raiding parties, snappy Chinese shopkeepers, mass mud-fights, and entire towns watching as a man chases and then spanks his wife. In this film, it sure is the Wild West!
- You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses: Ol' Jr. puts on a pair after he's told that somebody should put a stop to a fist fight he's currently watching.