McLintock!
Never such a tender love story! Never such a savage showdown! Never such restless natives!
Country
Production
Budget
$2 000 000
Box office
$9 920 347
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Frank De Vol
Artist
Audition
Editing
Otho Lovering, Bill Lewis
Whole Team (50)
Whole Team (50)
Short description
Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men 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 George; she wants custody of their daughter.
What's left behind the scenes
- The filmmakers drew inspiration from William Shakespeare's comedy 'The Taming of the Shrew.' Producer Michael Wayne and director Andrew V. McLaglen decided it would be even funnier if the plot were moved to the Wild West.
- During the filming of the pheasant hunt, John Wayne actually fired birdshot. The birds were released on command, so he knew when and where to shoot.
- Initially, producer John Wayne envisioned only Henry Hathaway in the director's chair, but Hathaway demanded such a high fee that Wayne decided to appoint Andrew V. McLaglen—the son of his old friend and colleague Victor McLaglen—as director.
- Maureen O'Hara wrote in her autobiography that in the scene in question, John Wayne spanked her so hard that she had bruises for a week.
- John Wayne insisted that the governor be named Cuthbert H. Humphrey. He wanted this character, played by Robert Lowry, to be a parody of the liberal senator Hubert H. Humphrey, for whom Wayne felt a sharp dislike. Humphrey was the Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate under Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 presidential race, which was won by Republican Richard Nixon.
- John Wayne once recalled that he couldn't for the life of him explain to Big Joe Hamilton how to act in a fight scene. It ended with him simply stepping on Hamilton's foot and then kicking him.
- In the corresponding scene, Jerry Van Dyke was actually playing the banjo.
- Bentonite clay—used in oil drilling and having the consistency of chocolate syrup—was used in the pit of liquid mud during the mass brawl scene. Filming the scene took a week.
- According to Michael Wayne, John Wayne (the producer and lead actor) insisted on jumping from the balcony into the hay wagon himself. Film companies usually do not allow stars to personally participate in dangerous scenes, but Wayne insisted. Just in case, the same scene was also filmed with a stunt double.
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