McLintock!


McLintock is a 1963 American western with strongly comedic elements, starring John Wayne and Maureen OHara, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. The film costars Waynes son Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Jack Kruschen, Chill Wills and Yvonne DeCarlo billed as Special Guest Star. Loosely based on Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew, the project was filmed in Technicolor and Panavision and produced by Waynes company Batjac Productions.

When he isnt playing chess or breaking his own record for throwing a hat up onto the longhornshaped weather vane at the top of his house every time he comes home drunk, McLintock keeps busy with the ranch. He hires attractive widow Louise Warren Yvonne De Carlo as his cook and welcomes both her and her two children into his home, including grown son Dev Patrick Wayne, who is handy with his fists.McLintock butts heads with a local gadfly, Matt Douglas, and Territorial Governor Cuthbert Humphrey, a sleazy bureaucrat who is looking to discredit McLintock, settle the territory, and remove the local Comanche 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 Stefanie Powers returning from college and a divorce from G.W. ........

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