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DVD McLintock (Special Collector's Edition)
John Wayne's most popular vehicle of the 1960s is a broad, boisterous comedy-Western and a family movie in every sense--in subject matter, casting, personnel, and the audience it aims to bear-hug. Wayne and his Quiet Man partner Maureen O'Hara reprise their large-boned lovers' quarrel in a Wild West variation on The Taming of the Shrew, while a cast of familiar supporting players do their best to avoid becoming collateral damage.
The picture is fascinating as an attempt to adjust and update the Duke as all-American icon. Rancher George Washington McLintock owns most of the town that bears his name, but James Edward Grant's screenplay is at didactic pains to establish the benevolence and socio-political enlightenment of his reign. G.W.'s former Indian foes have become his pals, he enjoys nothing so much as playing chess with his Jewish merchant buddy (Jack Kruschen), and he's tolerant--as his fellow landowners are not--of the homesteaders crowding into the territory. In what now seems like prescience about where things were headed in the 1960s, he even does his best to achieve rapport with (gasp!) impatient youth.
McLintock! was the first movie produced by eldest son Michael Wayne, and the first major assignment for director Andrew V. McLaglen (son of Quiet Man costar Victor). It steals like a bandit from a host of much better movies, but the Duke's great good humor and professionalism redoubtably anchor the proceedings. --Richard T. Jameson
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AN ABSOLUTE MUST IN ANY SERIOUS WESTERN COLLECTION
I was absolutely ecstatic to finally get a copy of McLINTOCK in a collector's edition and in fully restored, widescreen format. This is a movie that just cannot be appropriately viewed in full screen. Be sure to get this authorized version as previous DVD versions suffered in presentation format and quality.
And McLINTOCK is a John Wayne classic, one that absolutely belongs in any comprehensive Western collection. Some of Wayne's greatest lines and scenes are here. But, hey, why limit it to Wayne? McLINTOCK has arguably some of the best Western moments to be found anywhere in the genre.
The movie is hailed as a comedy but don't get the wrong impression. No, this isn't BLAZING SADDLES or RUSTLER'S RHAPSODY. There are lighter moments, yes, like the clay slide fight and Maureen O'Hara's romp down main street in nothing but her bloomers. But then there is also John Wayne's touching scene with Stephanie Powers, who plays his daughter Becky, when he explains to her his take on life. There's also the scene where Wayne speaks for a group of captured and imprisoned Comanche chiefs. His words are as applicable today as they were when the movie was made or, more to the point, in the context of period in which this movie is set.
And a classic Western deserves nothing short of a classic cast. In that regard McLINTOCK comes through in spades. In addition to Wayne as the irrepressible George Washington McLintock, Maureen O'Hara is perfect as Kathryn McLintock, McLintock's estranged wife. Stephanie Powers is wonderful as McLintock's daughter Becky while Wayne's real-life son, Patrick, stars as Powers' love interest, Devlin Warren. Add to that group Hank Worden, Chill Wills, and Yvonne DeCarlo and your in for Western entertainment at its finest.
The only drawback with this DVD (and certainly not sufficient to tarnish the film itself or my rating of 5 stars) was a Special Features interview with Maureen O'Hara. I was totally shocked at the arrogance displayed by Ms. O'Hara in discussing her abilities as an actress. While she remains Wayne's very finest leading lady, I was stunned at her lack of class in the interviews.
THE HORSEMAN
Paramounts the one
Paramount has done a great job with the four movies in their collection-island in the sky, the high and the mighty, mclintock, and hondo. I wish that the reviewers state if the copy they're reviewing is the paramount copy just released or the other vastly inferior copies. That way Paramount won't get a bad rap for dreck they didn't produce.
It's About Time!
John Wayne's funniest film has finally been given the royal treatment: a brilliantly sharp, colorful, widescreen picture with clear sound, commentary, and some fun extras. It was great to see Maureen O'Hara again--she looks wonderful! To the person who couldn't find the trailer and the corset feature, they are there, on a second page. Nothing is missing; it's a wonderful DVD.
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