MCLINTOCK!

'''McLintock!''' is a 1963 comedy Western starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and loosely based on Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew''. Produced by John Wayne's Batjac Productions for United Artists, John Wayne's estate retained the rights to the film. Legal suits prevented the film's copyright from being renewed, causing the film to enter the public domain. Despite being available in public domain distributors for the past decade, the first official home video issue of the film was released in the mid-1990s by MPI Home Video. Years later, in 2005, Paramount struck a distribution deal with Batjac and thus is now the home video rights holder for this film. The official DVD presentation includes restored and remastered video and audio with extensive documentary, commentary, and bonus features. ''The High and the Mighty'', ''Hondo'', and ''Island in the Sky'', three other John Wayne features faced the same situation, and were issued around the same time.

Contents

Synopsis

Cast

Controversy

References

Synopsis

Cattle baron 'George Washington McLintock' is living the single life on his ranch. He is estranged from his wife 'Katherine' who left him two years before, suspecting him of adultery. McLintock hires beautiful widow 'Louise Warren' as his cook and welcomes both her and her two children into his home. 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' (who returns from boarding school only a few days after her mother's arrival) and a divorce!

Cast

Actor	Role
John Wayne	George Washington McLintock
Maureen O'Hara	Katherine McLintock
Yvonne de Carlo	Louise Warren
Patrick Wayne	Devlin Warren
Stefanie Powers	Becky McLintock
Jake Kruschen	Jake Birnbaum
Chill Wills	Drago
Jerry Van Dyke	Matt Douglas, Jr.
Edgar Buchanan	Bunny Dull
Bruce Cabot	Ben Sage
Perry Lopez	Davey Elk
Michael Pate	Puma
Strother Martin	Agard
Gordon Jones	Matt Douglas
Robert Lowery	Gov. Cuthbert H. Humphreys

Controversy

This film would appear to some people to be rather contradictory in its social attitudes. The film is more progressive in its treatment of the Native Americans than many of Wayne's other films; however, the treatment of women is controversial in that it not only had scenes featuring violence against women, but that it seemed to give permission to commit such acts as well. The film has the dubious distinction of having the best known spanking scenes in the history of cinema. From a modern perspective, the film is far from politically or socially correct, but the social attitudes with respect to domestic violence reflected those of the time period portrayed, the early twentieth century.

References

Visit The Official McLintock! Movie Website