I love it...
You can pan it or throw stones . . . but it is a toss up between this film and "The Quiet Man" to see which I like best! The mud fight is a favorite spot in the movie . . .
shareI agree, this is a guilty pleasure and the mud fight together with the chase at the end is hysterical!
I have to say that Patrick Wayne is very good in this film, I am sorry he doesn't appear in movies/TV very often-I've liked him in almost everything he's done!
Most definately! I'm a JW nut anyways and his son Patrick does an outstanding job! He still had a ways to go to prove himself in film but this was an outstanding job! He had an awfully big set of foot prints to follow is what most folks probably thought. I catch myself doing the same thing too. He sorta went on his own way and did a wonderful job. I think the most hilerious scenes were the two spankings and the events that led up to them. Like mother, like daughter! LOL!
shareYeah, I love McLintock! as well. Regarding the two spankings in the film: I've read comments that these scenes -- especially the longer spanking involving Maureen O'Hara -- anger the feminists among us. As a moderately conservative male, I can see their point, but it is a weak one. In real life, I find that women like this movie as much as men do.
I never saw McLintock! in the theaters. The same year it was released, I met the girl who would become my wife, and years later, when the movie came on TV, my wife (who had seen it) recommended it to me. So I sat and watched it, expecting another The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, and saw that this film was instead a "Taming of the Shrew" comedy set in the old West. And it was my sweet wife who called my attention to it!
Since then, I've engaged several other women in discussions about the Wayne-O'Hara confrontation. They always just brush it aside, saying that the movie was fun to watch. Many of these women are what you would consider pro-feminist, but they know a good comedy when they see one, and the expected feminist ire about McLintock! never seems to show up.
Dan N.
English subtitles are a MUST on all DVDs released in the U.S.A.!