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| Mclintock!; John Wayne/Maureen O'Hara Western/Comedy | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 22 2006, 10:26 AM (319 Views) | |
| KaijuFanatic | Jun 22 2006, 10:26 AM Post #1 |
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I remember seeing this film on TV as a kid and just thinking it was the best thing going. You know how it is, often we'll watch a film or TV series as a kid and spend years trying to track down a video copy or these days a DVD of that old fave and there are times when some films or series don't hold up as well as you recall. This isn't the case for, McLintock!, I picked this DVD up soon after I got my first DVD player and it certainly hasn't lost any of the fun I recall as a kid....I recently replaced the old bare-bones disc with the 'Collector's Edition' and I still pop this disc in, ocassionally. :D What a cast this film has, O'Hara and Wayne did several films together and as usual, Wayne employed many of his regulars for roles in this film, including son, Patrick. The one scene that stands out for me is the big brawl with folks sliding down the muddy embankment and of course, the scene where Katherine McLintock (O'Hara) has pushed poor G.W. McLintock (Wayne) right to the end of his patience and he simply walks through the streets of the town at a steady pace, until he finally reaches Katherine and he spanks the daylights out of her! As a kid, that was wild stuff, as I'd never seen an adult, 'spanked'. Nice to see an adult could take it as much as we young'uns! ;) The cast is huge and includes, Yvonee DeCarlo, Stefanie Powers, Jerry Van Dyke, Jack Kruschen, Bruce Cabot, Chill Wills and Strother Martin, just to name a few. Perhaps this film is better discussed in the comedy section, but with the western flair, I wasn't sure where to place it. :) |
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| packmule | Jun 22 2006, 06:44 PM Post #2 |
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Pictured: Don't try this at home. John Wayne, attempting to give Maureen O'Hara an attitude adjustment, in the form of a spanking, from McLintock!(1963) |
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| josh TX | Jul 30 2007, 09:47 AM Post #3 |
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As a teenager I found this film to be too campy and the fistfights seemed so ridiculous I could hardly stand to watch it...but I watched it again a couple years ago and was able to see it in a different light. I don't take everything nearly as serious as I did when I was an overachieving teen, and the film came off as fun and now I see it as one of my fave Wayne films. I also feel this way about Big Jake, a film that has Wayne playing Jacob Mc Candles, a tough-guy whos trying to get his grandson back from some bandits. One of the humor points of that movie is that everyone he encounters in the film asks him who he is, then after he answers they all say "Mc Candles? I thought you were dead!" By the end of the film Waynes character is getting pissed about it. Im still not sure I really see the humor in it though. |
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| KaijuFanatic | Jul 30 2007, 11:58 PM Post #4 |
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I think I was quite young, the first time I saw this film on TV, so I think that had a lot to do with my immediate enjoyment of the film....the huge fight in the mud, the run-down scene between Wayne and O'Hara and the 'happy' ending all scored big points in my eyes. I think I still enjoy it as much, today, but probably for different reasons, mainly the nostalgia associated with my first viewing. I like a lot of Wayne's films, even, Hellfighters, which most fans seem to despise or at least the fans of Wayne that I run into. I always thought it was hilarious when the comment was made that they thought, Candles was dead, too.....jsut the look on his face, each time he heard it, cracked me up. |
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