SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

mattdillon-92503 I hear people who simply don't get it with The Duke that he "just plays himself" If I have a chance I ask--- Then John Wayne is a gunfighter, Texas Ranger, Excellent fighter, War Hero, Expert Brawler, Indian Scout, Super horseman ( he just may be! He sits a horse better than I can and I tried to copy his style for years on a horse. This after breaking five horses myself but I just could not get the look or the feel of the horse the way it looks like he has ... My dad who was a true-life Horse Whisperer said that "a man who can sit a horse like John Wayne knows em, and has spent hundreds of hours on em and has finally just given into riding a horse naturally-- He just rides em and forgets that is what he is doing"So John is a superhero? IF his acting is being himself then he truly is exactly what EVERY true man wants to be and should have received even more acclaim than what he did. He was a HUGE help to the war effort even though he never really was a soldier. He was a hero to Native Americans before it was cool to be good to them and he was a man who believed in hard work and was against welfare and a PC world GOOD... Then John Wayne Truly was one of the best actors of all time. Even better than what I rated him before I started taking your view- - he just plays himself!!!..... Welll...... Thanks John. You changed my life when you were alive and you changed it as you passed away-- now you have changed it again LONG after your death. You were my biggest HERO. I love you. I wish you would have taken better care of yourself. I miss you. What I would not give to have a new John Wayne Movie to watch. I wonder what Rhonda Fleming would have been like with him? FIRE? Warren E. Justice

utgard14 Wealthy cattle baron George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) has his hands full dealing with land grabbers and crooked politicians. Now his estranged hot-tempered wife Katherine (Maureen O'Hara) returns to take their daughter Becky (Stefanie Powers) back with her to the "civilized" East. I think this is John Wayne's best comedy. Any movie with Wayne and O'Hara together is worth seeing. They're both great here. Excellent supporting cast. Most famous for being the movie where Duke chases Maureen O'Hara and finally spanks her in front of the entire town. Easily offended types should avoid this like the plague. Everybody else sit back and enjoy a fun movie.

atlasmb Looking at the reviews on this site, it appears this film has many fans. I cannot understand why.First of all, the script has no charm. I loved Wayne and O'Hara in The Quiet Man, but here they are working with a script that more closely resembles a Road Runner cartoon (mug for the camera, hit someone over the head with the nearest object, then fall hilariously over your own feet!).Saying that the concept is based upon The Taming of the Shrew does not make it better.Everything that happens in the film is broadcast in advance. There are no surprises. Slapstick can be an art, but here there is no joy in it. I don't mean to belittle the opinions of others. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. But I found no genuine laughs in this movie. There are so many other worthy films out there.

rogerblake-281-718819 Perhaps not the film for those with a humour bypass or with political correctness issues but for the rest of us we can have a good old belly laugh at a movie that doesn't and isn't meant to be taken seriously.McLintock is an interesting character,on the surface an overbearing womanising drinker but underneath a good natured man with a heart of gold.He is tolerant of his daughter's choice of husband (a hard working but penniless young dirt farmer)He is also determined that the local native Americans have a square deal even though he has had some dust ups with them in the past.He enjoys a game of chess with the Jewish store keeper,a much valued friend who in the past gave McLintock and his then young family credit to survive a bad winter.If the film reflects Wayne's politics its done with a good humour.Unusually for a Wayne western nobody gets killed.Apart from a few punch up bruises the only injuries suffered are several punctured posteriors courtesy of Maureen O'Hara's hatpin.The plot concerns McLintock's estranged wife coming home to collect their daughter and to get a divorce.Like"The Quiet Man" the issue is settled by Wayne's character chasing our Maureen all around the town causing all sorts of mayhem then giving her a good spanking.He did the same to Elisabeth Allen in "Donovan's Reef".Oh well,if it works go for it,I wouldn't try it on my darling wife mind you.Old favourites Chill Wills and the delectable Yvonne de Carlo make welcome appearances,likewise the cameo from Leo Gordon was sublime.Gordon was one of the great western badies nobody had more shades of villainy,not even Lee Marvin.His previous appearance with Wayne was in "Hondo"He really surpasses himself,a loathsome horrible piece of work.Here he plays more stupid than bad as the worried father concerned with his daughter's whereabouts.Trying to hang the native American he holds responsible is not a good idea.She then turns up with a young cowboy in tow all fluttering eyelashes and feigned innocence.The rest is pure magic.Wayne grabs Gordon's shotgun repeatedly poking him in the stomach with it saying the immortal words 'Pilgrim,you've caused me considerable inconvenience,I haven't lost my temper in forty years,there was a time I would have hit you,I'm not going to now,the hell I'm not'The rest is history.With a nod to political correctness I'll give it eight stars,the hell I will make that ten.